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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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  • Starrabee commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree, As an Artist myself and considering the launch of the artists and makers club not even 2 months ago, It’s been definitely disappointing to see, I know companies can be slow to get feedback and apply it but hopefully this can be considered!
  • Makimoke commented  ·   ·  Report

    If you claim to support your community and work to make things better for everyone involved in the entertainment industry, you should know to not use GenAI for the purpose of entertainment.

    Remove the emote, do not use GenAI again. I will put the emote in my banned terms, and will keep it as such indefinitely.

    Stop GenAI, our art isn't just a bunch of lines, and certainly not their bottom line.
  • lukespinscircles commented  ·   ·  Report

    There should be no AI cats or generative AI emotes of any kind on a platform where some of the most talented artists in the world share their amazing work and can be commissioned. Support the community, not a machine.
  • MiyaMewrilee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has so many opportunities to have made this the right way and they went the lazy easy route. It looks horrible and is a slap in the face to all artists/photographers
  • Lgho_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    I personally think it is a bad look for the company to have an emote that seems to be generated or assisted by ai. There are so many amazing artists (and cats for that matter) in the community that I am sure replacing it would be very easy to do and would be greatly appreciated!
  • SodiumGoburin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously **** AI slop, boooooo. Tomato tomato tomato I'm throwing tomatoes.
  • Naechan commented  ·   ·  Report

    That emote just looks awful, what the **** are you doing?

  • shadowsiwren commented  ·   ·  Report

    This AI cat looks gross, please change it. Support an artist, might cost you less than $5 for a cheap one on Fiverr, unless you actually want to go above and beyond and hire/commission an artist for a page of emotes. Do better.
  • ultra_pancake commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is unethical in multiple ways that artists have spoken out about repeatedly. I don't know how companies still think using it is a good idea and that they'll get away with no one noticing.
  • MotleyPirate commented  ·   ·  Report

    cheap trash, no matter the situation. disrespectful to the entire twitch artist community, harmful to the environment and gives the appearance you cant afford to commission someone. super embarrassing for twitch to do this.
  • PreciousAngelWings commented  ·   ·  Report

    You'll find that emotes made my an artist are more welcomed, used and have a positive response from viewers and streamers alike rather than something that does not have the same attention to detail, nor coherent execution than an Ai generated emote. Reconsider what you'd like to present on your viewer/streamer interactive website. Would you like to promote the creatives? or diminish the appreciation that you're trying to promote as a Content Creator website?
  • sol_Naina commented  ·   ·  Report

    Come on dude, just hire an emote artist, instead of taking away from the community that you're building.
    You know what waits at the end of the road. Creatives will start avoiding your platform all together, which will harm your bottom line.
    Don't you care about profits? Is it really worth losing that much money, to save a tiny bit of money on hiring an artist or doing it yourself with stock photos?
    Come on, be smart here.
  • NekoNyaa28 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The Gen AI emotes feel incredibly disrespectful to the artists who stream on the site and basically helped build the emotes by making their own. It's always really fun to have an artist highlighted for big emote stuff like this so this feels like a huge let down.
  • Ninjinister commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nobody with brain cells wants AI-generated nonsense.
  • ErisVenia commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using Regurgitative Image Generators to **** out emotes for a website with millions of users is ridiculous and disgusting.
    You have the means to hire an artist. On Fiverr, you can get an emote for five bucks, if you're really that cheap.

    Stop embarrassing yourself, and stop hurting artists. We will not let you normalize this ****.
  • Lucas_Sindri commented  ·   ·  Report

    I could draw an emote in less than 20mins better than any trash youd be able to mage with ai. Get this **** outta here, what a spit in the face of every artist on the platform. How dare you.
  • chiaraislily commented  ·   ·  Report

    Aside from what all other commenter's have rightly said, it's also really ugly
    Like you had to go use the plagiarism machine that consumes so much energy and you couldn't even see that the result is so uncanny and ugly?

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