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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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  • Luigi_TP commented  ·   ·  Report

    It sucks and it's bad get rid of it
  • teslauncoil commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seeing a crummy AI holiday emote presented like the best new thing is pretty insane and disgusting
  • Wito commented  ·   ·  Report

    How about no generative AI allowed at all? On both platform and content creator ends? For the better. Any kind of ai slop is bad. Does not matter if tts, images, text, bot responces. Nothing generative should be allowed on creative platform.
  • safecove_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai art also just sucks in general & shows how lazy a company or person is by allowing it
  • SoulZephyr commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove the cat in the chat emote. Stop using generative AI for any and all Business practices. Support and work with creative Twitch streamers. Show actual effort to build up the communities that you claim to support here on Twitch. Ensure that global emotes are not only relatable, but center around moments in Twitch history. Don't just make it a cat, make it a twitch streamers cat for good pr, and a bigger connection to the streamers.

  • RoadToDuskVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of generative AI, especially as the conglomerate that Twitch is, is a sign that Twitch does not care for its users and communities. Twitch may be predominantly a gaming streaming platform, but AI has no place in gaming, either. game deving, game testing, character and background design, game mechanics, soundtracks -- all of these require not only coding and discipline but also understanding of talent and ability with the consent necessary therein to use it amicably. While not exactly needing to understand coding or how to create assets, gamers are still an active part of the community, too, whose labour does not go unnoticed -- from gameplay to commentary.

    There's a difference between AI assistance to fine-tune assets (i.e. synthbanks a la VOCALOID, soundfonts for music programs, specific programs and elements used to fine-tune or enhance visuals via CGI and SFX) and generative AI used to quickly hash out assets for a profit (i.e. ChatGPT, AI seed art, catinthechat emote). To prioritise quantity over quality is the biggest mistake when Twitch claims to be a company dedicated to respecting the community that keeps them afloat, all while they claim to be bleeding money and are not profitable.

    The active use of generative AI is a disservice to the creatives that are the backbone of this platform. It devalues artists, and especially Twitch's own platform as their actions show a tolerance to the saturation of their platform with generative content -- a disservice to the labor of streamers of any type (that don't already knowingly use generative AI content). Games, music, assets, commentary, anything and everything that is shown on Twitch, even the shadiest streamers and actions, would be nothing without creatives and the content they create from their own time and dedication, and Twitch's values are nonexistent now that they disrespect this fact with active use of generative content.

    If you actually want to be profitable, respect your users and don't use AI. Plain and simple, Twitch.
  • nexus_traveler commented  ·   ·  Report

    Start allowing AI for emotes and things will go probably downhill more a cliff then the steep slope its on already
  • Adiology commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is embarrassing. You have really talented artists on your platform, take their help, they'll do it for free if you really want to save a buck.

    Stop using AI.
  • beckyandfrank commented  ·   ·  Report

    No AI. Stop stealing from artists and taking their jobs.

  • mechadria commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely not. AI slop belongs absolutely nowhere, and it goes against so much of the message that the platform has tried to build. If Twitch were to promote the use of AI, I would not hesitate to follow creators to other platforms and cease any subscriptions.
  • Miceteas commented  ·   ·  Report

    I knew twitch was an horrendous platform but i didn't know they would go this low
    What the actual **** are they doing
  • taffyforever commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch !!! Do better !!!!! This is embarrassing for any corporation but especially for a platform that apparently doesn't care for its artists
  • spicedspica commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am on twitch strictly to support the artists I love and watch them work. Twitch using generative AI content when you just launched the Vtuber Creator Club, an initiative being lead by so many talented individuals is highly insulting to their efforts. You could easily commission them or any of the many artists streaming on your platform, and heck, HIRE these artists full time with a salary and benefits so they have steady income and you would have far more beautiful emotes for a lifetime. Stop using AI and make a commitment to NEVER use generative AI in any of your content, be it art, written, music, voice acting etc EVER and make that clear. You say you are for the creatives? Prove it. Put action behind your words.
  • Anigmator commented  ·   ·  Report

    No to ****** AI theft slop, contract real artists
  • Pankraru commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get this AI SLOP out of here. This is a platforms made up of creatives. No one wants this trash.

    Using AI generated content is a move against creatives showing that you're ok with using stolen labor rather than paying for the work to be done.
  • JettXRose commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch you have an art category and couldn’t find an actual artist? Does twitch realize the message that sends to creatives on your platform?
  • garrick97 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai has no place on twitch. Shame to whoever pushed for AI to be allowed in the first place.
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