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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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  • SkullsNCupcakes commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don't use AI, especially with the abundance of artists available to make emotes.
  • sasielb commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don’t get why companies that make money off of creative people would think that the same creative people want genAI in their spaces. Seems more efficient to just not use the AI
  • KingPancakeGoblin commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's no place for AI trash on a site FILLED TO THE BRIM with talented artists. Do. Better.
  • AvatarIzzy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI for global emotes to save a few bucks is really gross. Support any of the millions of artists on Twitch and have them do the emote instead. It will look so much better, give the artist exposure, and will make their entire year!
  • Bunnairry commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many artists have a home on this platform including myself, please do not disrespect us like this! The literal hundreds of thousands of dollars given to twitch in subs to artists should have been enough to dissuade you from this.

  • Donorak commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just a slap in the face to artists that create amazing emotes. There is no place for AI inside the creative space.

  • v_nessAHH commented  ·   ·  Report

    People love twitch for the emotes and that rests on artists to be the backbone of that. Why insult artists that have been part of the industry for so long? Especially with AI art that is rapidly stealing their artwork to be fed into an engine that isn't even good. There's so little protection for digital artists at this time and Twitch shouldn't condone the use of AI. Like MOONBTCH said, this is particularly deaf with the release of "Artist Creator Club" feature.
  • Magical_Bard commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a platform of immensely creative and talented individuals and to immediately take a very blatant and open stance as to start opening the doors to generative AI content on the platform is only going to lead to a death spiral that twitch is already teetering on. Every platform that touts supporting artists and then even gives a inch to AI content has immediately become flooded and turned into a hellscape to navigate, including TikTok, Twitter, and Deviantart.

    Remove this and issue a immediate apology. I would rather we not have a "themed" emote than take this garbage from a company that has been so "engaged" with their community. Talking to a single ambassador would likely tell you how horrible of a idea this would of been if you were so caught up in your office meetings to really know if this was a good idea or not.
  • StargazerKG commented  ·   ·  Report

    Streaming is a medium rife with artists. Flesh-and-blood artists who are fighting a constant fight against creatively bankrupt thieves and scammers flooding creative spaces with subpar genAI tripe. This is not a good look.

    Also, I added "catinthechat" to my blocked terms list. I encourage everyone to do the same.
  • FabledArchivist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Down with ai content! do NOT support this twitch! You're entire platform is made by, for and to help promote creatives. Don't throw them in the trash, you will doom yourself.

  • CrazyFoxOni51 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art doesn't do the job compared to ACTUAL well designed emotes. i know that other content creators payed talented artists hundreds, if not, thousands of USD worth of well designed emotes. using AI is just lazy
  • DeadheadJackal commented  ·   ·  Report

    I always worried about something like this happening but it especially feels like a big slap in the face after they've spent so much time and effort using the last few days to set up creator clubs for artists, as well as rolling out the ambassador programs.
  • MageVivika commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch's lifeblood is the creatives who stream their work and/or the art of others in the form of videogames and art/video primarily. Instituting GenAI emotes shows a clear disregard for creatives and asserts that your platform is a hostile environment for human creativity. I agree with everything in the statement from Moonbtch and I know many more twitch users who do as well
  • Zeta_omega1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lazy Work like using AI for something like Emotes should not be rewarded. Hiring an Artist to make an Emote should be more Valueable in the long run after all. no Twitch, Bad Twitch! Bap
  • EveOnBee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Considering how many streamers on Twitch are artists that have learned the skills and are actively putting in work, often on stream, this is a huge slap in the face to its user-base. Again.
  • Caberhook commented  ·   ·  Report

    It really kills any idea of being community focused when you remove the human aspect of the website. That Twitch would rather get a cheap quick generated emote rather than to showcase and uplift one of their many artists.

    It's gross, and for me it leads to further fears that down the road they might integrate more and more AI, possibly even scraping from their users like X is doing.

    If they went down that road I would not want to be a user being stolen from to feed whatever AI they partner with.

  • FunfettiPhantom commented  ·   ·  Report

    100% Could not agree more. This kinda stuff is extremely gross and disappointing.
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