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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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  • AmoreTori commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dear Twitch. I am a normie. A normal person. People like me could care less about how a cat got its santa hat. Merry christmas and please ignore all these unnecessarily loud and bored twitter grinches.

  • vintagegutnish commented  ·   ·  Report

    An artist could literally do an emote like that for PENNIES. Hand drawn, photoshop, whatever. There are SO MANY artists doing emotes for twitch streamers, like???? Hire one of them??
  • SoogePooge commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have an entire community of artists that stream their art, do better twitch. It's embarrassing.
  • ford_ged2 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Talk about being out of touch. Using AI Twitch, really? Just pay a f**king artist. You clearly have money, buckle down and support on of the artists on here you cheap f**kers.
  • tvstaticsystem commented  ·   ·  Report

    imagine being an extremely successful streaming platform and using ai to make your emotes, twitch bbygirl you more than enough have the cash to get an actual, non-ai emote
  • Allbrotnar commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI should not become normalized EVER, but even less so in a community so rich in incredibly skilled artists.

    Generative AI is a blight.
  • AvecPardon commented  ·   ·  Report

    How can a platform that claims to uplift and support and spotlight artists then turn around and betray those same artists by using AI to create a global emote when it would have been far better PR and reinforcement of those values to have a community event where artists could submit emotes for consideration. Or in case one is needed in a more timely manner, any emote artist can be commissioned at a reasonable price for a truly custom global emote. Any artist worth their craft can maintain secrecy about a commission, as client confidentiality can be held until the client wishes to reveal the completed art. Heck, if privacy and security is a concern, Twitch could write up an NDA about a commissioned emote until the platform reveals it. AI should never have been involved in an art endeavor; it just makes any recent and future emotes from Twitch suspect and devalues their word and stance in regards to artists.
  • cormbreb commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of AI just tells us that you're too cheap, as a multi-million dollar company, to hire an artist to make a simple emote. Wow. How cheap of you.
  • daemo72 commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many artists on Twitch. Support them - not AI.
  • Lady_Aethria commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art does not belong in Twitch emotes! Support artists!
  • MariusBoss11456 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated stuff sucks. You have so many artists using your platform and you're instead gonna use ****** AI. Please change this.

  • MagnoliaSimms80 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has so many artists using their platform, and they use AI for emotes? What a slap in the face to so much of the community.
  • Beawitchment commented  ·   ·  Report

    Poor taste is an understatement. You have so many wonderful creative people who work to make emotes for you platform and instead of commissioning one of them, you choose to have an AI mash together this slop. Please do not go this route.
  • B0bbin5 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Consider the amount of artists who would love to contribute this is unacceptable.

  • Saragiras commented  ·   ·  Report

    in bonus of giving a huge **** you to all artist you make an emote that is insanely ugly for no reason there no rush to make emote but if your in such a rush you need to make an ugly *** ai cat you could have paid a real artist to do it in the 15 mins that it took to watch to unlock
  • Sira_Blopp commented  ·   ·  Report

    Imagine being a huge company with a large budget and still going for AI and negative press instead of asking one of the thousands of artists streaming on Twitch for an emote...

    ***** AI image generators!
  • Lunamann commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, this... this is in poor taste. It takes like five seconds to take a temperature check on this sort of thing, and realize that huge swaths of your userbase hate the idea of AI art being used in this manner with a passion. It also takes five seconds to commission an actual artist for this sort of work. What the ****?
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