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No AI for global emotes, change CatintheChat

It is obvious from the disconnected whisker, uncanny expression, and strange anatomy that the holiday emote :CatintheChat: is AI generated. I speak on behalf of the artists on your platform who have had our livelihoods threatened by generative AI, as well as those with numerous ethical concerns- from datasets consisting of stolen and copyrighted work to environmental issues for immense amounts of energy spent on image generation.

From a marketing and business perspective, the money you save releasing AI emotes isn't worth the negative PR, especially compared to the positive PR and community building that would result from featuring one of the creatives on your platform instead.

Optics are important and this sends a clear message that you do not care about the artists working on your platform. The response on social media is very clear: rather than a fun feature to celebrate holidays, all the conversation is about how people don't want AI emotes anywhere near their channel or how they wish you would have worked with one of the many artists on your platform to create it.

This feels like a complete slap in the face after you just released the Artist Creator Club, which seemed like a real effort to support creatives on Twitch. Those efforts ring hollow compared to your actions by releasing this emote.
Make it right. Remove the emote and replace it with something either drawn by a real artist or edited from a real photo. Promise to prevent all future use of generative AI in global emotes so that those of us who oppose it never have to see this harmful practice being used in our chats.
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  • ZulkirVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    as someone in the Tech Industry:

    FORGET AI ((cant actually say the actual word i want to, so the word FORGET will have to do))
  • ferrohl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dear marketing directors of Twitch. You've likely invested millions over the last decade to promote and make your brand known worldwide. Don't be a bunch of lazy cheapskates and devalue yourselves :) Pay a ******* artist.
  • Pastel_Maddness commented  ·   ·  Report

    With how many artists are not only on the platform but on staff, its genuinely insulting to have Ai global emotes. We already have shown artists making so many great emotes yet get slapped in the face after the announcement of a Ai emote. Ai should NEVER be welcome when we are supposed to be a platform uplifting creatives and sharing love of hobbies.
  • artist_frida commented  ·   ·  Report

    right after making clubs and having an official twitch artist club too, absolutely insane to see gen ai art here
  • Lovibunny commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think you missed out on a great opportunity to support and work with the artists on your platform. i feel really disappointed.

  • Sparky_Summers commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI has no place in any creative space. This is disgusting
  • dm124 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is not real art! It's fake art that doesn't have any love that real artists put into their craft!
  • moist_donkeyear commented  ·   ·  Report

    Given the size of Twitch's art community, it is both lazy and disrespectful to utilize AI. There are millions of artists who would be thrilled to create a global Twitch emote, and using AI undermines the very creators you profess to support.

  • SerariInari commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist I am extremely upset y'all'd use AI like it's actual art. I don't work hard to make my content just for it to be overshadowed by AI
  • NoctisEctorius commented  ·   ·  Report

    How are you gonna make an artists and makers creator club and then not pay a real artist? hypocrisy at its finest.
  • yennafae commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI has no space in creative spaces. I hope you take this feedback, remove the emote, and never try to sneak in AI slop again. Pay artists, it's not that hard.
  • MagicMoki commented  ·   ·  Report

    LLM generated images have no place on twitch.
  • KRAV0R commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is not welcome, it make your compagnie look CHEAP. Twitch is a creative space and it is just plain direspectful to your users to introduce AI to those who are actively fighting against it.
  • oerbadiavanilla commented  ·   ·  Report

    it looks really weird and more importantly, promoting generative ai is very disrespectful to artists, writers, and photographers. some of them are your customers- the company should do better. data is scraped usually without permission or compensation, creating subpar results with high environmental impact. this isn’t a tiny company. i’m sure twitch can afford to hire an artist or photographer. can twitch afford to drive away creatives like this, though?
  • AngelRose commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a platform for creatives. This is disgraceful and you should be ashamed. If you hadn't laid me off I would be advocating internally, but I guess the salary you once paid me still wasn't enough to pay for a real artist.
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