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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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  • Zeromalley commented  ·   ·  Report

    With the amount of talent at hand by within Twitch itself and the Twitch community at large, making a generative AI image for this is emote is ridiculous, corner cutting and a terrible look for Twitch at large.

  • HeavensLast commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm incredibly disappointed that Twitch decided to use a AI generated emote in the next portion of Share Chat Collab stream events, something I was looking forward to doing with another artist friend (who does emotes).

    Twitch has such a large variety of artists, whom always do emotes and are looking for the next project, such as my artist friend mentioned. There is so many different ways Twitch could pay out either directly or with certain amount of gifted subs to said channel so the artist could get paid out.

    I'm not sure why Twitch has decided to go this route, but it's hurtful to many that actively do art for a living or even hobby do so in at least 3 different categories (Art, Makers and Crafting, Co-Working.) that it's hard to ignore just reaching out to one of them.

    If you were willing to pay an artist to replace the OG BibleThump emote, why couldn't you do that here too?

    Please seek out an artist and replace the AI Christmas Cat.

    Thank you.
  • MickeyOHare commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey, Clancy, you ain't got $35? Too hard to hop on Bsky and find an artist with comms open? **** outta here with your AI *********.
  • BeIaBorr commented  ·   ·  Report

    Emotes are an amazing way for artists and creators to show off their talents and engage with their communities. By allowing ai emotes you are not only stealing work and even their actual art from artists, but you are diluting the community experience, making it a soulless shell of what originally was.
  • elheygamez commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are too many talented artists on Twitch to be promoting GenAI slop to people.

  • Twilight__Paladin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch as a platform is built on creativity and self-expression, and the use of AI goes against all of that. Do better, Twitch.
  • RennSenseii commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’d say don’t spit on the creators on your platform. Pay people to make real content. Don’t use AI.
  • jpg_FFD8FF commented  ·   ·  Report

    Do not let AI slop content be normalized. I don't want machines replacing art, ai can replace boring **** instead
  • venom_cipher commented  ·   ·  Report

    We hate AI slop in this house. How ******* hard is it to use PHOTOSHOP??
  • SamTheSilkie commented  ·   ·  Report

    So much of Twitch's revenue comes directly from subscriptions, which directly involve hundreds and hundreds of artists making emotes for streamers. And yet the site slaps that artist community in the face using generative AI for a global emote. Shame.
  • SchlamaInDaCoola commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remember when Discord added Crypto integration and everyone cancelled their Nitro? Yeah. Don't be that platform. Don't cater to a groupuscule of morons for the illusion of progress or profit.

  • 1800macaroni commented  ·   ·  Report

    Imagine having a platform that's geared towards creatives only to use AI art. There's no excuse, theoretically they wouldn't even have to pay anyone money. (Though that'd still be preferrable!) They could've just put them on the front page or credited them in the post. How disappointing and lazy. Do better, Twitch.
  • HauntingWhispernh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Global emotes celebrate the platform's creators, and calling back to iconic moments in the platform's history is one of the reasons they are special. not to mention using generative ai images is a slap in the face of all the creators and artists that use twitch and make it the place it is.
  • treschlet commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, just don't use it. Ever. Just stop. It's the modern day equivalent of using cringey clip art because you're too lazy to pay a graphic artist, except worse, because at least that cringey clip art was made by a graphic artist who likely got paid to make it at some point.

    Just don't. D O N T. it's out if touch, it's lazy, and it's offensive
  • Salty4Iife commented  ·   ·  Report

    Having an AI gen image as a Twitch global emote is just spitting on the face of the artists that choose Twitch to stream their art to others
  • LunarianDelia commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's a massive insult to your entire community of artists to pass up on using the work of a real artist and instead resort to plagiarism-laundering generative AI slop.

    It's an even bigger insult to the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE to continue to use this massively energy-intensive technology... period, really, but even more so for what I suppose should be considered a frivolous end (not to downplay this in any way).

    The only seeming motivation for this is out of Twitch being cheapskates. Do better, Twitch.
  • BeksVibes commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very disappointing to see Twitch turn to something that is affecting the very creators that keep this platform alive.

    Beyond disrespectful
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