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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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  • bad10shi commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many artists stream on twitch and you guys decide to not commission any of them. Twitch, you can do better than use ai generated emotes. Many of these artists are skilled in Photoshop and I'm certain they'd be happy to photoshop a cat with a santa hat.
  • oceanpancakee commented  ·   ·  Report

    So disgraceful to all the amazing and talented artists who stream on twitch... these artists are the backbone OF twitch and it's so sad to act like they are not. Without talented artists we would not have most of the beloved emotes we have today. Artists keep this platform new and fresh and it's very disappointing to see twitch turn to ai instead of the wonderful artist community they have built.

  • Thebr0nz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Demonstrates a significant lack of awareness or support for your creative community.
  • Wagyumi commented  ·   ·  Report

    It baffles me how Twitch can use AI slop instead of working with the wonderfully talented artists on the platform.

    Shame on Twitch, I am just disgusted.

  • peachyfranny commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why use AI in the first place when their own plattform has so many great artists? Money issue...?
  • Lizardguy3 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The internet was literally made with Cat Memes, how the absolute **** does one decide to use AI to generate a ****** pic of a cat instead of do a basic image search?
  • Temporal_Wolf333 commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many talented artists that this is just a slap in the face to.

    Anyone using this emote in my chat is gonna get immediately banned. I have zero tolerance for AI
  • default_basil commented  ·   ·  Report

    Surely someone on the twitch team for this has a cat and can get just edit a picture with free use assets or could make one.
  • Nivek_vania commented  ·   ·  Report

    so many artist on twitch.... this is so embarrassing
  • Teddy_Kanikami commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, if this emote goes through it'll be a banned term in my chat at minimum.
  • gusarapo2000 commented  ·   ·  Report

    It may not be as serious to you, but if you keep using AI generated slop I will simply stop using the site and delete the app, I don't need it
  • NeonWabbit commented  ·   ·  Report

    I know some people who would cancel their Amazon Prime subscription because of this, Twitch. Having AI-generated emojis WILL hurt your bottom line. Do better.
  • aaronthebursar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop using AI slop, calling it art is an insult to people who actually work hard rather than those who are too lazy to pick up a pen and paper.
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