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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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  • cypurrpunk commented  ·   ·  Report

    could've found a much cuter emote PACK on etsy for $3, drawn by a real human being. what a disappointment
  • StrawbebbyCat commented  ·   ·  Report

    Had to enter a log in code to vote on this because twitch wants to verify I'm a real human using my account, but they can't be bothered to have real humans make their emotes?

  • Aspen_Whispers commented  ·   ·  Report

    Come on!! Artists are scrabbling for money and you slap us in the face with this ai nonsense, pay an actual artist for work

  • Duh_Gravy_Train commented  ·   ·  Report

    Humans like humans. Machines are not meant to be replacements for us, please don't harm people by using this. Human expression is worth 1 billion times more than lifeless and hollow AI generated works. Human art resonates, this does not.
  • kase424 commented  ·   ·  Report

    No one asked for this slop! Twitch can afford to commission worthwhile artists for emotes & the fact they use AI to pump out **** instead should be a red flag to every single content creator that makes a living off of their platform.
  • SereneLily commented  ·   ·  Report

    I can sorta believe Twitch couldnt be bothered to pay an actual artist for A SINGLE emote, but this stuff has to STOP with a single emote. I don't want anymore global emotes haphazardly slapped together, because then they wont stop at emotes. I'm sure even more promotional material will have it.

  • SlimJimCowboy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Previous emotes that have been used look back to times of gaming history or recognizable games. Sometimes it's just a cute dog with sunglasses. These all are good emotes because they inherently carry the idea of human connection. A moment or feeling we can all remember or share. All AI does is remove that human element and make it soulless. I will never care about this cat because it does not exist. There isn't an artist I can follow on social media because I like the art style, because this artists doesn't exist. AI is soulless and has no place anywhere, especially in community oriented spaces.

  • lemoncake10 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is wasteful and harmful and has no place in creative spaces
  • Ishirin_Ryuko commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ye... AI emotes are less then worthless.
    Not just for the community at large, but also for Twitch as a whole.
  • pikadetective commented  ·   ·  Report

    NO GENERATIVE AI!!! IT STEALS FROM ARTISTS!!! PLUS ITS UGLY!!!
  • BobaOtaku commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is just plagiarism with extra steps, Generating a single image uses half a litre of drinkable water and enough electricity to fully charge a smartphone and we should not be normalising its use in any setting.
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