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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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  • aathray commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've got twitch turbo and I'm strongly considering canceling over this.
  • lilcookie_artist commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact you used AI to create a emote instead of making one yourself is disgusting. I will never use this emote EVER.
  • CageNightwind commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get rid of this lazy AI art garbage. Any Twitch staff's 12 year old niece or nephew could do just as good or better with a photo of a cat and photo editing software and it wouldn't be surrounded with controversy either.

  • Midnight_Thirsty commented  ·   ·  Report

    Especially after the Artist Creator Club release this feels insulting. As someone who studies AI and ML academically, generative AI used for “art” is theft plain and simple.

  • ShaelynTheFae commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm NOT an artist, and I want to see non-AI emotes. I will never use this one.

    Don't use AI going forward.
  • Eddy_Cozmo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Even after working with artists a while back to do those Limited-Time emotes and then releasing the Artist Creator Club, the move to have this holiday emote be AI-generated is kinda nonsensical. It only makes the previous efforts that were supposedly in support of artists seem like Twitch was pandering.
  • Faevyn commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI making art is inherantly art theft and there's zero reason to be lazy to the degree of not having someone in house be the artist or hiring someone for it.
  • hexadecanol commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not support the use of ai in making emotes.
  • Sappy_the_Axxy commented  ·   ·  Report

    If Twitch wants artists and other creative to stay on the platform, using AI in emotes or anything else creative is NOT the way to go
  • Kiitarie commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would take me 30 minutes to hand draw a proper emote. Go away with this **** Twitch.
  • MIDA666 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has an art category but thinks it's brilliant to add an AI emote. Anything to save some money huh?
  • Sushi_Foxx commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many amazing artists on and off of Twitch the company could have easily hired someone to make a simple cat emote. AI is something most of the Twitch community as a whole is fighting so to see the company use it is disheartening

  • NenoTheCryptid commented  ·   ·  Report

    That is ******* outragous. Ya lazy, awful, absolutely abominable slops. There is so many ways to make it not using a ****** AI and ya took the most lazy and anti user aproach possible. Just a disgrace.

  • ChipDaDergVee commented  ·   ·  Report

    How many millions a year does Twitch make and they could comission someone for a decently high-quality commission w/royalties for a few thousand per year

  • embla_j commented  ·   ·  Report

    The platform is full of artists you could have commissioned, but you chose AI slop
  • ArticPlayZ101 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hundreds of thousands of artist, and you’re using AI? Genuinely what is the point.
  • FunkelGeist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree- you literally have an army of artists on Twitch. Why not make it a nice competition. Let the artists benefit. Also the Emote looks not nice. Please remove it.
  • CassieRoseZA commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get rid of the AI Emotes its you got artists hire one of them or even find a **** cat photo with a HAT ONLINE????
  • purplepuddlesuwu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove the Ai emote.
    You could have made that yourself or
    Oh I don't know... Choose one of the thousands of artists who use your **** platform. This is ridiculous.

  • candyxbomb commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove AI images and get an artist to do this. You have creator clubs, why not run a small competition for them and then provide all the advertisement to the artist of the winning emote and top 3? It feels like a good way to help promote people who use the platform and also provide emotes to people instead of AI and bad PR for you.

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