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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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  • zombaebby commented  ·   ·  Report

    Rather insulting on twitch’s behalf.

  • ShoobiArt commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generations is an insult to the soul of the community and the creativity of the platform.

  • SurelyonlyMikey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Pay people, Twitch. My dollar a stream isnt what you get, pay people.

  • JakiStow commented  ·   ·  Report

    Imagine paying artists for art.

  • Jezzimae commented  ·   ·  Report

    With so many creative talents already streaming and participating on twitch, there's absolutely zero reason to resort to AI generation for emotes aside from sheer greed. Please make this right and reach out to actual artists and editors for emotes, whether drawn or edited photos.
  • RochelleAika commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think everything was already said in the other comments so from me its just a NO! STICK THAT GENERATIVE AI SLOP UP YOUR BUMS!
  • Bayar32 commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are plenty of artists that would be more than happy to do emotes, there's no reason to push this AI trash on us.
  • ThiccLesboyScav commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a community full of creative people, especially ARTISTS.
    By doing this, you show a lack of care for these wonderful, talented people, and showed them, that your platform, is not the right platform for them, causing them to drop Twitch as a whole.
    I would SERIOUSLY reconsider this decision of using AI art for emotes.
    As you can already see by the outcry from other users. This is one of the biggest mistakes you could've made.
    Please, we urge you to correct this mistake.
  • bananers4u commented  ·   ·  Report

    With this, twitch will lose a lot of support and discourage artists who thrived from Twitch from the beginning! Please reconsider! If looking for artists and paying for them is difficult why not provide some form of benefits to them on the platform? Encourage artists growth and retention to staying on twitch! NEVER DISCOURAGE!
  • PockyStar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop using AI to do your emotes , you have pleanty of artist in your community, why you do this???
  • Fabulich commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative plagiarism threatens to erase the people that create the art. We deserve to keep ownership of our words, our art and music. The creators deserve to be known for what they've made. Not only is it harmful to the environment, it's psychologically harmful to the people that have to curate it on 2$ or less, and even then their wages may and have been stolen from them. It is shameful to sit there with such tone deafness as to steal assets from someone, erasing their work- their message- their flag they wave to world to say "I was a photographer and I was here," and slap an emotionless, joyless emote onto one of the biggest creative platforms out there. Merry hecking Christmas you filthy animals.

  • iisquared commented  ·   ·  Report

    feels like twitch is a great home for artists, so incredibly disappointing to see them spit in their faces and introduce an AI emote
  • alec_nicks_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    No AI for global emotes. Its easy. Don't complicate this.
  • SqueakyFingerz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Massive company cant even afford to partner with an actual artist for an emote, despite MANY being hosted on the site
  • XanaMaus commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has the opportunity to not only showcase one or many of their partners by commissioning emotes, but the chance to make creators feel as if they are part of something that isn't just a content grist mill.
  • L7_ed commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's not that hard to get a real person to hop in Photoshop and make an emote
  • Jattazo commented  ·   ·  Report

    words can't even begin to describe how absolutely disgusting this act is on Twitch's part. there's no excuse for this kind of thing, especially from a company of this scale.
  • CryptishDraws commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using Generative AI to make emotes makes your look lazy, cheap and uncaring towards your users. Especially since you have an entire sub sector of your website dedicated to ARTISTS.
  • Akantia commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are millions upon millions of cat photos out there that an actual Artist could reference and make an emote of. You could have gone with a meme, heck you could have gotten a cat pic from someone on staff and gone from there. But no, instead you generate whatever that is with AI. Whoever decided this was a good idea needs a serious talking to on why this is so gosh darned inappropriate. (h.e.ll and d.a.mn are not bad words twitch, grow up!)
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