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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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  • lateralusian commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is theft and twitch should be embarassed of itself for this ********
  • NokiDoki commented  ·   ·  Report

    Anyone who's ever made meme edits could make CatintheChat in half the time it took you to come up with the prompt, and in a way that doesn't cause massive outrage. Like did AI even save you any time or money in making this or are you just simping that hard for the brand new way to make Antarctica melt faster?
  • ChihuahuaBanshee commented  ·   ·  Report

    GEN AI is theft, GEN AI is plagiarism, GEN AI Is laziness. GEN AI cannot be copyrighted. Eat the rich.
  • Cuboid64 commented  ·   ·  Report

    You're owned by A M A Z O N, pay a **** artist, maybe even one of the many artists that stream on your site!
  • BeybyeMC commented  ·   ·  Report

    fun fact: Photoshop exist, take a cat pic and put a hat on it u lazy corporation
  • RobinFloof commented  ·   ·  Report

    C'mon twitch, you're better than this, I think
  • Darkmoosen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Crazy to say emote artists are an important part of twitch then pull this BS, how cheap can you be?

  • Melsa_Hvarei commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just put a christmas hat on an existing cat emote. That would've been perfect. What is this AI trash.
  • onlyRicky_x commented  ·   ·  Report

    One day corporate will understand how much the consumer does not like AI being used
  • RareBirdAlert commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of AI in place of featuring an on-platform creator is a lost opportunity to prove that Twitch supports its creatives and cares about the things that concern them.

  • Lizardguy3 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Every time I look at the new emote, I notice something new wrong with it. First the weird eyes, then the plastic fur, then something wrong with the mouth, what's the next thing that I see that makes me wretch?
  • cloud_is_tired commented  ·   ·  Report

    the audacity to try and shove ai into global emotes spits in the face of every streamer in the art category. pathetic
  • DDRMuchacho commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please no AI for the love of all that is holy
  • Asinametra commented  ·   ·  Report

    The emote's concept is cute and solid, but using AI is a ****** execution for nearly every conceivable reason. The people who make Twitch successful are all old enough to remember lolcats and icanhazcheezburger, and the in-jokes, memes, and emote culture on Twitch are solidly based in that era of the internet. A clip art Santa hat on a public domain cat picture would have a better impact and value.
  • uzu_leashk commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI is NEVER okay. This shouldn't be a thing, emotes or whatever. All of if it's done from stolen content from other artists WITHOUT their consent. All this doing is harming
  • sunnydotpng commented  ·   ·  Report

    the ai emote spits in the face of the thousands of artists who put so much effort into actual emotes. very disappointing
  • sen_elric commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI Models are made without artist consent nor compensation, many of your streamer artist’s Art was use to train this models, and now Twitch wants me to be okay with the platform using it for the gimmick?

    And now I’m concerned that the platform is using the emotes uploaded to train their own model.

    If this is not clarify nor address I’m not longer supporting the platform not uploading art to it.
  • ks_khaos commented  ·   ·  Report

    it’s so disheartening to see ai being used for emotes after so much work has been put into making the artists and makers club a reality, have one of the many talented creatives make a holiday emote or edit one from existing non ai images
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