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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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  • MildKatArt commented  ·   ·  Report

    I know how little you respect the people making you money by how pathetic a cut of subs you give them so I guess turning to AI instead of one of the many talented creators using your service despite that is not really surprising I guess
  • HadesOfAcheron commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please stop using AI for a platform designed to support creators and artists. AI is not art.

  • Roxoah commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's incredibly upsetting as an artist to be shoved aside yet again in favour of ai slop. There's so many incredible artists who use this platform to showcase their work.

    This is insulting.
  • Autumnmoon13 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai looks disgusting and is a cheap way to use art for anything

  • LadyFable_VT commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am extremely hurt and angry by the use of AI. I hope Twitch will do better and apologise. As an artist, it’s so frustrating to have your craft be insulted on a daily basis these days, it’s a real slap in the face.
  • TinyKawaiiSatan commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have an entire community with a whole category dedicated to artists and you just spit in their face by making an emote with AI.
    You aren't broke. You can afford to pay an actual artist for their work.

    AI has no place in a community meant for creatives and creators.
  • NoSaveData commented  ·   ·  Report

    Insulting, as a platform that supposedly supports a variety of content providers selling out to AI in the name of the holiday spirit is tone deaf.
  • emmanuelpeudon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop making the worst decisions.
    You could probably start by going the opposite way when you have an idea.
  • TrollArtistry commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist it's just a huge insult and slap in the face to see Twitch make and use AI emotes. Like- I'll even remake it for FREE!!!
  • tim_2077 commented  ·   ·  Report

    That Christmas cat emote looks awful, you have a giant community of artists who you could have contracted to make something that doesn’t look like garbage. Please fix it.
  • karlcoleman88 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not only is using AI bad for artist, it is bad on the precious little resources we have left… I wonder how many bottles of water was wasted to make a **** emote

  • NorthernKiss commented  ·   ·  Report

    It’s important to support real artists in the content creator space. Where everyone is making something we can’t take the easy way out. Hire real artists for global emotes!
  • Robb576 commented  ·   ·  Report

    400 people streaming Art on your platform at this moment and the preferred decision that the board makes (because I deeply hope this is not a one-person project) is to proudly present new things that are made by AI. I don't think anyone would agree that is the right choice.
  • madeofstarlight999 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Artificial Intelligence generating imaging and content when there are large community of artists on twitch who would be more than willing to provide better emotes. AI generated content is built with the theft of content without the consent of the original artists.

    You are Better than This. Do Better.
  • ThiefIing commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist and a person with moral ******* decency, I am so confused why anyone would think this was a good idea. Twitch has so many artists,VAs, singers and musicians, animators, etc on their platform that are all constantly speaking out against AI. Why did yall think that using AI for emotes or anything else would be a good idea? Do you *really* want to appeal to the dude bros and crypto chuds that bad?
  • NICterHorst commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch used to be good to artists! Actually insane that no one thought to do the bare minimum work and get someone to make a better emote
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