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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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  • TheDogVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unacceptable. They don't even need to draw it. They could have used a cropped emote like frankerz.

    This is incredibly lazy.
  • The_Swedish_X commented  ·   ·  Report

    Such an action on the behalf of Twitch is unacceptable. So much of this platform’s communities have been supported by supporting real artists and this is insulting at best and a bad precedent at worst.
  • Wingzero871 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remove this AI ****, get an actual artist to make the emote.

  • DrazovTheWicked commented  ·   ·  Report

    At this point, studies have been done; artists are being caused provable harm by GenAI (which is almost always built on plagiarism). It would have taken a minimum of effort to put a hat on a cat and take a picture, and slightly more effort to pay an artist to make the emote. What you made looks terrible, and was a terrible act to commit, and you should feel ashamed.
  • The_Vady commented  ·   ·  Report

    **** generative AI. I would rather have no emotes than genAI ones.
  • RexZambi commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are COUNTLESS artists on this platform that could've done this. Using AI is a slap in every artists' face. ALL OF US ARTISTS ARE SICK. OF. AI.
  • Fallen_Element_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is being used in all the wrong ways at the moment. Using it to generate art is unethical and an insult to an industry that is centuries old full of masterpieces of art perfected by humans. No AI slop can replicate the process of an artist.

  • RaiynFox commented  ·   ·  Report

    NO AI Generated Content! Either use a photo or get a real artist to make the emote for holiday things!
  • LoveXombie commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI looks cheap and gross, why wouldn't you choose the work of a real person? This sucks, Twitch!
  • MikroSentinel commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generally speaking generative AI should never be used for art, music, voice acting etc. you know things that are made for entertainment and should only instead be used as a tool to reduce mundane tedious work or medical benefits for example. Sure it was all fun and games when common people on the internet were fooling around with it when it first became widely available a few years ago, but now when corporations like Twitch exploit ai as a way to be cheap and not pay artists, not only does the end product look ugly and low-budget, it's also morally wrong as it robs talented people of their jobs.

    If I see that cat appear in the global emote list, I will immediately block that word. GenAI emotes are not welcome on my streams!
  • vicemidnight commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree with all this! Twitch, please. Don't do this. We don't generated AI art/emotes here.
  • FalchionBeta commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unsurprising coming from such a stingy-*** and shifty company that some executives would leap at the AI graft, but be better for crying out loud and support human artists.
  • Daktangle commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is inherently plagiarist in nature and a massive detriment to the environment. It is an insult to artists to utilise it in anyway.
  • Sun_Dog_Vinnie commented  ·   ·  Report

    I could do something like this in 2 minutes using some free Photoshop alternative in 2009, when I was 11. Everyone at Twitch should be embarrassed!

  • MatMcDonut commented  ·   ·  Report

    Utilizing generative AI in any fashion is deplorable and I'm deeply disappointed in Twitch's decision to utilize it for this emote. For a platform that cultivates and nourishes so much creativity, it is a blight on the core of their business.
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