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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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  • Homozygoat commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch proving once again that they'd rather be incompetent stooges than try to do anything well, properly, or correctly, at all, ever. you bozos literally have a mountain of talented artists at your disposal to commission and you lazily use AI?
  • AuxDroid commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated slop belongs NO WHERE especially in places full of creativity like this.
  • Mothergamer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, you continue to make poor decisions like this that show you are not actively listening to our concerns and what we want. Artists work very hard and there is no excuse for using AI generated art. You tell us to hold you accountable and every time we do it's always the same. You need to do better.
  • neonAbby commented  ·   ·  Report

    Irresponsible and disrespectful to allow generative AI into the emotes.

  • haunted_daddy commented  ·   ·  Report

    It’s one thing for a fresh new streamer to punch up their stream by using ai-generated images. It’s another for a company with millions of dollars at their disposal for the explicit purpose of marketing and media to use them— this spits in the face of the very creators you claim to be so passionately in support of. What’s the point of attribution on your platform if you can’t even bring yourselves to commission artists for your global emotes?
  • VeiledGrey commented  ·   ·  Report

    For a platform that supposedly prides itself on supporting its creators, Twitch consistently manages to alienate large swathes at a time. Using genAI when there are so many artists—or even users handy with photoshop—who would be thrilled to make a global emote is really disrespectful and lazy. It's not that hard to actually support your *massive* creative community.
  • apollospride commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using generative AI just shows you don't respect the artists you claim to want so much on your platform.

  • MorriganENVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many artist and cute cat pictures that you could have used for this!!! I am SO disappointed, NO GEN AI ON TWITCH.
  • WaterDropTsunami commented  ·   ·  Report

    I Am disappointed with Twitch allowing AI On their own Platform, and Allowing a Cat AI Generated Emote with a santa hat too. That makes me really upset that Dan clancy is being okay with that dirt bein on his own Platform, He needs to realize that Human Artists matter and Not ROBOTS, This is disappointing And disheartening. I Hope he removes this emote from existance.
  • brutebasket commented  ·   ·  Report

    keep that ai slop off the platform and pay a real artist!
  • cherylfornia commented  ·   ·  Report

    Deeply disappointing. You could have done something great with Creators, but then boldly chose this.

  • MikelAL93 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI should never be used for any form of art, especially emotes. Support artists instead!
  • pinksmores commented  ·   ·  Report

    why promote artists and have an entire category/guild/tag for artists if you're just going to pull something like this? support REAL HUMAN artists
  • mixxling commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not support generative AI for this purpose.

  • brannyn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please no generative AI. PAY FOR ARTISTS!
  • TheYasQueen93 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Be better than this, twitch. Don’t endorse stealing from creators when your platform is built on creators.

  • Skawtzilla commented  ·   ·  Report

    Incredibly tone deaf idea. Don't go ahead with it
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