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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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  • cidriel commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm still waiting for Twitch to apologize for the tweet where they congratulated Vtubers (as a whole) for pioneering the use of A.I. in streaming while showcasing exactly ZERO Vtubers that use A.I. as part of their content (or sole gimmick) at all. I didn't think they could insult an entire subset of their users or viewers in such a manner again, and yet I was wrong. Remove this emote, don't do it again, remove the thought of using GenAI for any part of the platform ever again; not for emotes, not for banners, customer service, not for advertising. NEVER.
  • Candaru commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely deplorable behavior from Twitch. Fire whoever proposed the idea of an AI emote, even if they're in a high-ranking position (no—ESPECIALLY if they're in a high-ranking position).
  • The_World_Squid commented  ·   ·  Report

    As cute as the idea for that emote is, they should have just used a real photo or at least a proper artist to draw it.
  • illiath_The_Fae commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not wanting to just automatically assume the cat in the emote is an AI generation I took five seconds to look at the image... and the mouth is just... what? If that's a real cat picture then I can't support that cat being used as the model for the emote, it needs permanent help to eat!

    As such, like most here, I consider this to be "AI" (generative computer art plagiarism). Please don't inflict such on us artists and creators of content that is ALREADY being the target of such intellectual property theft!
  • Shiichi commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have MILLIONS of artists to pick from and you decided to cheap out and do a very horrible AI generated cat. Which you couldve just google'd and gotten a better one even.

    Do better, this is beyond silly.
  • ShioriAwoo commented  ·   ·  Report

    ****, I'll draw you a cat in a christmas hat for a dollar. Anything is better than using some slopmachine to generate emotes
  • RicePounder commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whoever decided to use AI instead of actual artists is a bit tone-deaf to the platform. This whole streamer industry was built on creatives making the content. You mean to tell me they could have just hired an artist (there are plenty out there) to get a single emote made? A single emote wouldn't have hurt the wallet of such a big corp.
  • CombustiveBoulder commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a part time streamer how am I supposed to feel supported in my growth if twitch won't even support artists for emotes
  • lexithett commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI takes away the creative power of humans. Let alone, takes away the joy of making the art. >:(

  • Explosive_Barrel commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm literally an artist (illustrator) and one of the great things about emotes is the unique human voice of creators that they convey.

    It's one of the precious things Twitch has that really makes it feel like a hub of communities.

    Let's not lose that, eh?
  • KiniLynae commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is not an artist, you can't even copyright your own emote, any platform can steal it cause you have no literal rights to it, maybe you should commission an actual artist on Twitch instead. You should know better Twitch. The understanding that copyright is held by the creator, that a non-human creator (not being a legal person or AI) cannot hold copyright (especially if its made from stolen/plagiarized work to begin with). A person filling a prompt does not equal creation.
  • Dagger209 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI should be used to assist in daily living, not replace artist jobs so multi-million/billion dollar companies can save a few pennies.
  • SirButtShuffle commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated slop will have no warm welcome from us on Twitch. Be better, do better, for the community

  • jadeomatic commented  ·   ·  Report

    It’s very disheartening as an artist to see generative AI used on an emote that someone with the most fundamental understanding of photoshop would be able to create. When a company uses AI, it shows me that money is more important than respecting artists and helping the environment, it’s cheap, dirty and a very easy way to get me to stop using a product or service.
  • 1SickPuppy commented  ·   ·  Report

    never happy to see ai art being used when so many resources exist. and it's not like twitch is some poor starving streamer just starting out in business.

  • Gilgamesh_______ commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI-Generated content is extremely low effort, hurts the livelihoods of real artists, and is something Twitch should not be using.
  • LinkOfHyrule0 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This could have easily been commissioned by an artist on the platform to help promote smaller creators. Instead twitch picked the easiest and cheapest route which is a poison to the art community, and AI on the platform at all is going to be a bad idea. Give real people a chance before using likely stolen AI generated work
  • Iffykins commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai is a race to the bottom. All it voices to your users is an unwillingness to support artists and a PROFOUND lack of consideration. To put it in Christmas terms: You just regifted us something with the tags still on.

    i dont know how many more times we have to say it: we dont want AI used for any visuals, full stop. We're past ignorance - at this point it only signals greed, apathy, and disrespect. You're not too big to fail.
  • Hansyx3 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is disgusting. There are a plethora of artists who would absolutely put their heart and soul into making an emote for you, they would be honoured to. AI can't do that. @Twitch
    Good post OP <3
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