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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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  • souptaels commented  ·   ·  Report

    Corporates continuously showing that they don't gaf about their artists, creatives, or their community will never not be surprising. Corps are so quick to jump on new technologies and then wonder why they're making low profit margins as they are.

  • datzi_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not support the use of ai.
  • TheHellspawnHero commented  ·   ·  Report

    With how many of Twitch's global emotes are just repurposed photos of people and animals, I see no reason why they couldn't have just done that again instead of resorting to generative AI if they were that desperate not to commission an artist. There are so many better options they could have gone for instead of this.
  • juniper_Jelly commented  ·   ·  Report

    imagine being perhaps the most popular livestreaming platform on the entire internet and not having the money to get someone to photoshop a santa hat onto a cat in like five minutes tops.
  • SalaComMander commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is no reason to use AI generated content other than greed or laziness.
  • JustaDandyman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Company's that use Ai show the world how lazy they are.
  • thatsmamaluigi2you commented  ·   ·  Report

    removing poggers and then doing this really shows where this company's "morals" lie
  • AmiJammi_VT commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is very well-said. As an artist and a streamer on Twitch, GenAI is extremely harmful. A majority of mainstream AI image generators use thousands of photos taken without consent from real artists and photographers. I don't speak on behalf of anyone but myself, but with 10,000+ signatures from just a few days, it should be apparent that this problem needs to be fixed. There are many artists struggling to make ends meet on your platform; give them a hand this holiday season by hiring them to contribute to the community they love!
  • LEOTomegane commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch takes so much of our income on their website already and they're signaling that they can't afford to pay anyone for an emote? Greedy lmao
  • epic_maddy commented  ·   ·  Report

    using ai on a platform thats meant to show human creativity is insulting!!!! No AI!
  • StarTravelerVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI (i.e. AI that steals from artists without their consent) has NO PLACE ON TWITCH!
  • TheHamOfficial commented  ·   ·  Report

    You can afford a real artist. Nobody wants your AI slop
  • Heyo_Teo commented  ·   ·  Report

    You're better than this, twitch.
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