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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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  • DJ_bouncybeats commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are how many artists using your platform and you had to go with AI?
    How lazy and low can you get!? Not only was that idea a horrible excuse of an "emote" and I use that term for that AI slop very, very loosely, but this is an outrage and a slap in the face to the artist community on your platform. As a company you have shown all of us you have zero integrity and how little you think of REAL artists, including myself. Look, you could have turned it into an art contest with real artists and have people vote on the one they liked the most! But no, you had to show your true colors and show how little to no respect you have to this community by using AI and hoping everyone would just accept it. Well you were wrong! Shame on you! DO BETTER! You are a bunch of cowards who are going to learn the hard way what happens when you cut corners. This sleazy practice of using AI to replace hiring a real artist is a low blow, even for you, Twitch. But then again our expectations for you were always low.
  • unpopulargoose commented  ·   ·  Report

    Someone on Bluesky took 3 minutes to make this concept with real images. It’s that easy. Do better.
  • bagelek_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    People who make emotes put actual effort into it to make twitch nicer and funnier. AI just takes it and remixes it without understanding what makes the emotes nice, without any credit or compensation. This is just disrespectful to the people who create stuff for twitch. and come on, you can't tell me the company can't buy real art, this just makes yall look cheap and uncaring
  • CassidyRey commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many real artists to choose from. Myself included. I'm very disappointed in twitch for choosing AI. It's a kick in the head to all of us

  • GalarianMike commented  ·   ·  Report

    A company owned by one of the richest people on the planet can't spare 80 bucks (or even an intern to crop one of millions of cat pics on the internet) to commission an emote?

    Peak capitalist laziness.
  • bloodywing commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nice how a multimillion-dollar company throws dollars at a generator instead of actually paying an artist. Why not get rid of the creative categories as well on twitch when you don't give a S​hit about actual artists.
  • LynndyLee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop wasting the vast amount of electricity usage with this AI garbage! There are so many talented artists just on Twitch. Are you just that cheap?!?
  • Faxanadu__ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Imagine having a platform with thousands upon thousands of artists and choosing to use AI slop for emotes.
  • TalysAlankil commented  ·   ·  Report

    You couldn’t find an actual cat picture? On the entire internet?
  • Rakketoto commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI for emotes is an insult to every emote artist on Twitch who put actual effort into their work.
  • Velocity__AU commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai trash as no place on twitch, especially with emotes. Emotes have been from basic memes to impressive hand made emotes that have time and love.
  • fonder5295 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This shows that twitch as a platform is slowly killing itself
  • wwwormy commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated emotes are disrespectful to all the artists and creatives that use your platform every single day. Also, they’re ugly.

  • CalumJ93 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art belongs squarely in the bin!
  • Qwertymamaa commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't know if twitch or any corp are stupid enough to actually use ai art for anything. Right now it all feels like a way to get attention... welp...
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