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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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  • Cuyoya commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whatever Amazon exec bozo tried to push this needs to grow up and realize "ai" trash will never be able to replace artists or photographers. Embarrassing to say the least.
  • Ollieosa commented  ·   ·  Report

    Extremely disappointed in this idea. Artists- especially those who are Vtubers, whose models are artwork, hold a huge space on your platform. It would be a huge slap in the face to them to start using AI slop for anything. This obsession with Ai is ridiculous and I would hope a platform who makes a lot of revenue off these artists would do better.

  • theLuigiguy commented  ·   ·  Report

    You can hire a real artist. I don't want my subscription and ad money going to a company that doesn't respect its huge creative community.
  • PokiDrawsPictures commented  ·   ·  Report

    Against genai by all means. You mean to tell me you are Twitch and you can't afford to hire an artist?
  • Johnsen290games commented  ·   ·  Report

    Adding to Emperor Astronomus, literally some basic photoshopping, and/or use existing meme cats from the other emotes you have, emotes are meant to be meme-styled anyway, and actual editing give that vibe, terrible, Twitch/Amazon, terrible.
  • FogPile commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's simply baffling to me.

    Twitch's global emotes have historically celebrated its creators, and represent iconic moments throughout its history.

    FrankerZ was Ernest Le's dog.

    This isn't anyone's cat.
  • sassaetco commented  ·   ·  Report

    You guys have the means to hire actual artists. Do it instead of using ****** AI to have ****** and polluting results.

  • IoneTheGothCat commented  ·   ·  Report

    I could cover my pinky toe in ink and drag it across the wall and have more heart in what I did than an AI could even dream of having. You're owned by a billion dollar parent company, you can afford a real artist.
  • Emperor_Astronomus commented  ·   ·  Report

    literally 30$ and you could've avoided this. This is literally 30$ comission and an @ on social media platforms for the artist too hard for you to do.

  • AlysCorner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Million dollar company can't even afford a stock photo image of a cat. Pathetic trash. I wonder what will happen to the next CEO soon :P

  • averythestarelf commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am incredibly disappointed by this decision of the Twitch team, and I will always advocate for real artists.
  • Thygoddess commented  ·   ·  Report

    At least ask the AI to put the ears at the right place... A 20s cheap photoshop would have looked better than this.
  • DzarekK commented  ·   ·  Report

    Genuinely disappointed in use of AI for anything. Twitch- do better
  • Blastflight_s commented  ·   ·  Report

    Emotes should be Done by artists! Not by use of Generative AI!
  • Shorpts commented  ·   ·  Report

    "AI" is such a waste, a real human being can make something more appealing, and it won't be at the cost of the planet on ******* fire.
  • Heart0fInk commented  ·   ·  Report

    ******** and your AI ********. Tell Jeff Bezos he can go suck a brick.
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