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.
MOONBTCH
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Crowyasumi
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Artists draw emotes for people, they make their overlays, panel art, sub badges, promotional materials, merchandise, thumbnails etc. They are baked into the very foundation of the website and are the backbone of content creators. Using AI generated materials that scrape and steal from those artists for any purpose damages everyone in this community.
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NebulilacLIVE
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OP already put it perfectly - its an absolute slap in the face to all of the creatives on your platform to be using AI for something that could have easily been done by one of the many artists avaliable on twitch (and likely looked better too.) Not to mention, using AI for something as simple as this from a business perspective gives the impression that twitch is a scummy platform that cant even afford to commission one person. Extremely dissapointed in whoever thought this was a good idea, and if using AI plans to become the norm on twitch, ill be taking my business somewhere else.
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Mithrandir995
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AI generated images will NEVER be able to replace art created vy real human beings, with intention, and emotion. They really need to stop trying. AI is a tool, to be used to assist. NOT to steal. Not to create entire things by themselves. AI runs numbers, does the brunt work that is extremely taxing on the human cognitive function. It does NOT create art, and it never will. I wholeheartedly agree with this.
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DeddedbyGlamour
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This is so deeply disappointing.
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Zane_VTX
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We DO NOT want AI generated global emotes! Literally hundreds of users in the Creator Club that you could have supported and you do something like this. It's disappointing and infuriating.
Do better.
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TheAsmoDingus
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Eloquently put as it could possibly be - I'm appalled that, with artists being the backbone of Twitch (both from a content perspective, as well as assets used by Streamers and Twitch itself), that Twitch would utilize technology that directly impacts the livelihood of them. Please remove this, refrain from this in the future, do better.
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novanone_
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whoever is making these incredibly idiotic decisions at twitch needs to go through training again or something, because the only thing they're good at is undermining anyone who isn't a c-level executive. artists already have a hard enough time thriving on twitch thanks to a blight of other issues, but using generative AI to create things like global emotes really just cements that twitch hates the people who use its platform.
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Spatsula
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MOONBTCH said it perfectly. Disappointed- as a Partnered full-time creative streamer on your platform, this doesn't make me proud to call Twitch my home. If you really respect artists and care about giving them a place on your platform, rectify this mistake, apologize, and commit to doing better.