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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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  • jennadrawsandgames commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don’t use Generative AI just to make emotes. It’s a full on insult to the artist community on Twitch who anyone in that community would’ve been willing to make the emote if you asked/commissioned them. Please keep AI away from art and artists.

  • Natonnie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Keep this place for artists for artists. No AI, not now, not ever.

  • mangosbangos commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don’t use ai art. It’s an insult to the artist community. Pay an art to design your emotes. It’s so disgusting and disrespectful that you used ai for an emote. Do better

  • poisonedeel commented  ·   ·  Report

    out of the thousands of brilliant, creative people on this platform, i cannot fathom stooping to the level of AI. incredibly disappointing.

  • apolluwu commented  ·   ·  Report

    embarassing for a multi-million dollar company to be using AI. makes it look like you guys cant afford to hire artists or something. looks cheap and disingenuous.
  • Spoofie_Gelid commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely disappointing. Do better, it’s not hard to use real artists.
  • mellemony commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don't cheapen your own emotes. You've finally wizened to paying Twitch Artists to create global emotes, and now your commitment to the Creative Community is in serious jeopardy. Watch this vote total grow - that's just how awful a decision you made against your own community.

  • ida_i_see commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch you should have common sense by now to know how much this hurts real artist. AI art would never be real art >:(

  • Trashkuun commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch couldn't afford to buy a Shutterstock of an orange tabby to put a santa hat over top of? Really? They had to use AI slop? Not only is this embarrassingly bad, but it's also just really pathetic. A million dollar company just taking a dump on it's community. Every respectable streamer pays artists for their emotes! Every respectable streamer pays artists for their assets! Twitch couldn't be bothered to pay someone to make a cat emote, just pathetic.
  • MartiniaI commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art is not real art. This is shameful.
  • EatAtDads commented  ·   ·  Report

    No AI in Twitch emotes. Support your VAST community of creators instead.
  • MisterPandaBoom commented  ·   ·  Report

    Would some people see more anti-AI crusaders to use Glaze and Nightshade to deal with it the AI art?

    For sake of Picasso and late classic traditional artists who made real human art that never diminished in ages.

    AI trolls be like.
  • minuitvt commented  ·   ·  Report

    I hope everyone involved with the decision to use AI for twitch global emotes loses their jobs and can never find work again for the rest of their lives cause that's what they deserve if all they can do is shovel ****
  • Molotovzy commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is the death or art and community, you should be ashamed.

  • Ryugo__ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Grown *** company can't afford to pay actual human being to do some COMMUNITY emote. THE ENTIRE point of community emote is to unite PEOPLE together. Living, breathing, PEOPLE. Any dumb ******* AI slop **** you exploit make no ******* sense.

    AI as a future in our lives, yes, but not to replace artistics and humankind creativity.

    Pay a godamn artist.

    Best regards,
    Me.
  • Snakaku commented  ·   ·  Report

    why not make a contest to celebrate twitch and the streamers that make the platform what it is? I'd say you can do better, but you're not on a good streak of choices recently Twitch...
  • Shadow99876 commented  ·   ·  Report

    **** twitch, They keep ******* **** up left & right & do not ever know when to quit, Fire the asshats in charge & get more competent people who know wtf they are doing.
  • ValkyrieVtuber commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have so many incredible artists on your platform. How are you showing them support by using AI for something as simple as an emote?!

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