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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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  • ThostrolotRD commented  ·   ·  Report

    Use of AI only encourages theft and laziness. If you want people to engage? Use actual human efforts than a machine.

    Humans deserve a chance to shine where it matters. Art, graphic design, etc. Generative AI isn't any of those.

    Please remove this emote and actually have a HUMAN make this. Because this? Is extremely disappointing for you guys.
  • queenofpockets commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd like to think you have better common sense than this, Twitch. Do you know how many artists I watch on twitch who could've benefited from their work being shown sitewide? Nah instead you chose the lazy route and slopped out some AI garbage. Do better.

  • BigBearsCave commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard is it to get a picture of a cat and shop a Santa hat on it? And let me guess, you had to generate dozens of images before that one came out the best?

    Nobody needs AI for anything, it's just tech pushed by finance guys who don't want to pay people for their work. It sucks morally, damages the environment and it looks bad and cheap in practice.

    Generative AI should not be allowed on twitch on any form.
  • inkykat420 commented  ·   ·  Report

    WHY THE **** WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER USING AI WHEN YOU JUST STARTED AN ENTIRELY NEW COMMUNITY OF V-TUBER ARTISTS??? LITERALLY, COMMISSION ANY OF THEM FFS
  • LunaDeLaira commented  ·   ·  Report

    Awful idea to use AI slop that harms the planet as opposed to paying an artist to do this.
  • OsiPopz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Embarrassing, instead of working with the many genuine artists and creators to create an emote, Twitch resorts to AI slop instead. You're telling me that y'all couldn't commission a single artist? Bffr.
  • sakuraflutters commented  ·   ·  Report

    ******** twitch, good lord. no one likes this genAI slop.
  • sakuraflutters commented  ·   ·  Report

    ******** twitch, good lord. no one likes this genAI slop.
  • wait___what_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    How incredibly lazy to you have to be to even make the decision to do this?! Get rid of it now, and make a commitment to never treading near generative AI again. Time to listen to the people on your platform rather than the brain-dead tech bros looking to scam a buck out of you. Support artists, not algorithms
  • TinyPotatoFox commented  ·   ·  Report

    Incredibly disappointed once again in Twitch. This is beyond tone deaf and uninspired. They could have easily reached out to ANY creator or artist out here or even just MADE it themselves. How difficult is it to photoshop a santa hat on a cat??
  • AbandonedRocketship commented  ·   ·  Report

    Y'all can't get a license of a single cat photo and edit a hat on top? A kid could do that.
  • raisa_bia commented  ·   ·  Report

    why the heck are we using AI emotes? what happened to creativity and photoshop?
  • CalicoKai commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has a large community of artists that use the platform daily. It feels like a massive insult for Twitch to then use Generative AI to create emotes when AI uses the work of artists, unauthorized, to make these uncanny approximations.

  • valkyr_sidonia commented  ·   ·  Report

    Streaming is about creativity and entertainment, generative AI is directly anti-creativity. Plase make twitch an AI free zone <3
  • krillianvt commented  ·   ·  Report

    what happened to just photoshop-ing stuff?
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