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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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  • Dapper_M commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI "art" is bad and lazy , Support real artists who are passionate on what they do and not lazy people who let a glorified toaster spew garbage.
  • Esrom_music commented  ·   ·  Report

    A platform with an entire category of working artist should not be using AI to create a product that is taking jobs away from people who desperately need them. The ongoing conversation of the ethical use of AI is nuanced and deserving of attention but replacing jobs for higher profit should not be a part of that conversation. It is clearly unethical.

  • Lillela commented  ·   ·  Report

    I hate them. Please don't do it Twitch.
  • BattleMasker commented  ·   ·  Report

    imagine having a large section of your platform dedicated to thousands of artists and then ******** on them to save 3 cents on a piece of slop. AI emotes are definitely gonna help Kick.com and Trovo.live more than it helps twitch
  • BlushyVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    No one asked for this, and no one wants this. Twitch has thousands of capable artists who stream their work to thousands of watchers who are more then capable of making emojis, thumbnails, etc., and to try and use A.I. slop is a huge slap in the face to all of them, just to save money. Terrible decision by Twitch Execs, say no to A.I.

  • K1ngOniGiri commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using generative AI, while there are human artists that would be more than happy to work with you and make an emote within a week, is a really, REALLY bad decision. The money spent trying to fix your PR is not worth using a AI generated (and not to mention ugly) emote. Working with real artists will result in much better quality products, as well as a better opinion of you through the streamer community. Stand with human artists, and don't make such a fool of yourself.
  • meohmichael commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think its plainly obvious that generative ai is destructive to twitch's public relationships as well as human artists who would have otherwise interacted with that space to create art.
  • wumbreon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI generation looks tacky and there are plenty of artists or graphic designers that would be glad for the work. You have the money for it; using AI makes you as a company look lazy.
  • SeleneEllinoth commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is no reason to not engage with an artist. Ai will only cost you in more ways than money alone it's not worth it.
  • NiaNythara commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch listen I know you make alot of decisions but please you could have litrally asked someone to make one waited a week and had a better emote, better optics and not looked like the biggest fool on the internet, PLEASE just sit down and ask people they won't bite for asking but useing AI for this makes it feel like your trying to make twitch fail, May you do better in the future
  • NitroWolf902 commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a 3D Artist, this saddens me. I stand with 2D, and all artists AGAINST Gen AI. It STEALS our work and PROFITS off it, and we don't get paid at all!

    SHUT THE AI CATINTHECHAT DOWN!!!
  • WeekdayWeekend commented  ·   ·  Report

    The problem here is that an idea begins to form surrounding this whole thing.
    A poor underpaid employee is told he needs to setup this emote, and he suggests the idea of doing a contest and getting in contact with some of Twitch's largest artists. Then, the big wig in charge says something to the tune of: "Nah, I want it done tonight. Just make DALL-E do it."
    Maybe this situation actually happened, maybe not, but it definitely seems plausible.
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