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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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  • DraconicDusk commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a moderator within the artist community, using AI-Generated art is an insult and a threat to the artists on this platform. Do better.
  • Antarea commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get one of the amazing Artists on your platform to make an actual emote instead of that slop AI "emote, this is embarassing
  • HeyBoston commented  ·   ·  Report

    We don't like how this emote looks. It's only the facsimile of a cat, and the fact that it looks "close but not close enough" is extremely distracting. Please hire an artist to make a good emote instead of using AI to generate one.

  • Elektroschnitzl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch cannot be serious-... so many talented artists, on the platform itself, many of them doing those kinds of things. Using AI does not only hurt them, but also Twitch as a brand in return, making it blatantly obvious that Twitch would rather pinch a few bucks and ruin their brand, than pay real artists. What a disgrace...
  • ArtsAlien commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many good artists out there, Twitch has even an ART category and you all choose AI? Make it make sense Twitch...
  • micromads commented  ·   ·  Report

    You literally have some of the best digital artists in the world using your platform to stream their art. You could so easily choose to promote one of your popular artists, or even a small up and comer if you didn’t want to spend that much money. Walk back this piece of content theft (which is what AI generated art is - a collaged theft of other people’s content) and replace it with something made by an actual person.
  • thebogrungis commented  ·   ·  Report

    I took a photoshop class years ago and I could've made something without AI in a few hours. This was a lazy time and money saver and twitch needs to do better.
  • ZenoBunny commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have thousands and thousands of artists using your platform; heck, you even have an OFFICIAL Twitch Artist and Maker club! Using AI is a slap in the face to your own community.
  • alexanderete1997 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, this is stupid, this platform is a place for many artists to show their work and doing this is akin to stealing from them and rubbing it in their faces. You think it's worth angering your people over this?
  • weikowai commented  ·   ·  Report

    I love cat but it is so easy to Photoshop a real hat on a real cat instead of using AI
    AND it would be cuter and have more character

  • CentaurWorks commented  ·   ·  Report

    I understand if the adpocalypse is hitting you harder than anticipated. But to then go towards AI rather than hiring one of your many artists that use the site for a freelance project or even any of your in-house artists is an insult.
  • saiphyart commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why do companies keep doing this AI slops? No one wants it. Just stop.
  • Tarba_Yelemel commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch could have picked the most random kitten picture and added a christmas hat to it, why would you fcking use an AI to create that. That's not even laziness, that's just stupidity.
    That emote is uncanny and ugly, replace it.
  • CyberellaDraws commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have real artists on your platform, maybe shill out a few bucks to one of them instead of making ****** GenAI emotes.

  • StudioGimlii commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that there are so many artists that you could have hired to make a global emote, and you were lazy and cheap, and used stolen art instead
  • Rhaco_Dactylus commented  ·   ·  Report

    Choosing not to pay real artists for real art is a clear signal that none of your stated values regarding content creation are your actual values.
  • boxeswithgod commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, the platform itself, is brimming with actual artists; let alone the hundreds of thousands who would love a commission from a (mostly) adored platform. There is zero need for AI on Twitch for any application.

  • Fluffiosa commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch stop doing stupid things, plzkthx.
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