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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PaladinBrie
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Stealing from the same kind of artists that make your platform popular, showing your company is too lazy and broke to hire a real artist to make an emote. It’s sloppy.
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fizzyb0mb
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Twitch is a platform that hosts a multitude of creatives and artists. Using AI for emotes is a slap to the face of the very people who make your platform successful.
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Keybladeselkie
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It’s bad enough that larger companies laid off a lot of workers that are artists and writers to try out A.I to make money. Twitch, please don’t be like this.
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JawnSilva
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No to AI.
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AureMagik
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AI is bad on so MANY things. Pollution, stealing artists, training the machine learning which is also used for deepfakes, but also propaganda, ... Hire REAL artist. No one does need AI GEN.
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mogekodraws
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You have a plethora of artists you can choose from, vgen has lots of emote artists, JUST HIRE ONE OF THEM TWITCH! Do better
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sylvieaster
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A beginner could do that emote in 10 minutes top. There is NO REASON to use ai.
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MapleCatArt
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As a fully time artist on Twitch I'm so upset seeing this AI emote... Why AI? You have so many talented and amazing artists on your platform that deserve to have their work shared. It's so disrespectful to put out AI emotes that are directly harming the community that is the backbone of Twitch and it's economy. Hire an artist not a robot!
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eloveart
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Do better, Twitch, and hire a real artist!!
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Hershy_VT
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Using and promoting ai generated, and ai assisted "art" will always be disrespectful to human artists. Do better. You have thousands upon thousands of creatives to call upon who love and use the platform, there is no excuse.
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Marius_Munier
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Do you want to keep artists on twitch, maybe don't disrespect their craft with AI. In the meantime, I recommend to all creators who care to ban users of this emote on sight.
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monswoon
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why bother adding AI? a photoshopped job of a blurry cat is funnier.
AI art just hurts and harms the art community that is drying so hard just to stay afloat, and now you kick them while they are down, honestly shame on you. -
MarkyAlien
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I will personally draw a high-contrast image of a cat wearing a Christmas hat, and allow Twitch to use it as an emote, if they can remove this LLM-generated forgery from the platform. It is not professional for a subsidiary of one of the world's most wealthy companies to do this.
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chimera_chi
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twitch is once again shooting artists in the foot, when they quite literally are the backbone of the PLATFORM. A QUALITY EMOTE IS AS LOW $25. IT IS NOT HARD TO COMMISSION ARTISTS.
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ArcturusSaDiablo
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AI is bad, period.
There are no known good applications of AI where it wasn't generated from theft, or ended up causing more problems instead of improving things. In fact, in almost every application, AI has DECREASED efficiency and quality. And in some areas, has caused significant harm to the people it was intended to help. Do not take Twitch down this path just because it's a "new cool tool". It's not cool. It's poorly designed, poorly developed, and poorly implemented. -
imperator_g
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CatInTheChat and any other future use of ai generated content for global emotes sets a bad precedent that will be harmful for artists in the twitch community. Until this is reversed I am cancelling all subs and watching streams on youtube exclusively
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LuckiCharmsVT
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Lmao ai emote is just dogshit, you have an entire platform with artists on it who stream and you take 50% of their sub revenue. Pay an artist man.
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SnazzyAzzy83
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I coud've made smething better on Microsoft Paint.....FOR FREE!!!!
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Harvinator2k
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Jesus, have some integrity
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dtv_entertainment
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Guys... You have a site full talented Artists you have huge amonts of Money and more money you can give them and US! Dont you think you have some "Poket Money" in your bags to pay one of your Users to make some better than a AI Generated Icon? Come on a big plattform like you should have the brain and the heart and the Money easily Pay one of Us to bring you that what you want right ?