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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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  • Tempest613 commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is so easy to hire an emote artist, or even just photoshop an emote using stock photos, and get a result that easily exceed this ai slop. Honestly, they have an entire art category and they still shoot themselves in foot and go down the regurgitative ai road.
    Twitch really know how to alienate their userbase.
  • cassaafrass commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many fantastic artists on Twitch that would jump at the opportunity to create a global emote. Even at the very least there are millions of real images of cats at Twitch's disposal instead of this. As a company that claims to advocate for artists and the art community this is a slap to the face. Consider utilizing the communities you have and uplifting them rather than utilizing technologies that only harm artists and creatives.
  • DropDownBear commented  ·   ·  Report

    I never want to see twitch use AI in any official media
  • PopiPipoRosie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disgusting show of intent, on a platform MADE upon creatives. AI is the antithesis of that.
  • GlitterSqueak commented  ·   ·  Report

    You couldn't google cat meme photos and use those? You couldn't ask staff to take silly pictures of their own actual cats? You had to use AI to generate garbage for you instead? Shame on you, Twitch. Gross. Tacky. Thanks for showing your true colors I guess.
  • SpiritMuse commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are billions of cat pictures on the internet and you really felt the need to use the plagiarism machine to generate one more instead of using an existing one. Like I can understand not using any random picture due to copyright issues but I'm sure there are also plenty of stock photos of cats that can be legally used. This is a slap in the face for the creatives that twitch claims to support.
  • AkikoKumagara commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nobody asked for this. Nobody wanted this. Change it or remove it. Simple solutions.
  • Timbo_SA commented  ·   ·  Report

    At a certain point, the question genuinely needs to be asked if this is wilful sabotage by someone at Twitch. The consistent tone-deaf and just plainly not-thought-out mess coming out of Twitch boggles the mind
  • SaiekoVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is being a joke of a company as usual
  • Conner_the_Wolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are plenty of artists that use Twitch daily to show off their abilities, yet you choose to use AI to create an emote that any artist could create in their sleep? This is a slap in the face to streamers everywhere, do better.
  • LunacyAndPirates commented  ·   ·  Report

    How many thousands of artists use Twitch as a way to share their art and their creative process? And you decide to use so-called "AI" to make slop instead of reaching out to any of them to make something for you??? You could have done an entire seasonal collection to host, **** you could have made it a seasonal thing throughout the year, featuring different artists, giving you new and interesting emotes and the artists a way to generate new viewers! But no, you can't possibly support the very creators that keep Twitch viable!
  • KuroBlackfeather commented  ·   ·  Report

    ***** AI and ********* for spitting in the face of artists with your stupid AI art emotes. Pay a real artist

  • mephileshedgehog commented  ·   ·  Report

    Remember we're a global platform with incredible arts streaming daily. Please give them a chance to feature their work on this wonderful platform. We watch some who do amazing things daily.blet this be something else. It may inspire more do more for this platform Don't let some AI do work because of cost to make one.

  • Keirosdragon commented  ·   ·  Report

    The platform has a category exclusive for artists, yet you couldn’t be bothered to ask them to make something as simple as an emote.

    To **** with AI art.
  • AznBrownie commented  ·   ·  Report

    You could have a made a popularity poll and asked people to submit cats with Christmas hats on. But no. Y'all thought "what if we slap all the artists and art streamers that make twitch what it is, in the face?".
    Not only should the emote be removed. There should be a public apology, and everyone who thought adding this emote should be fired or suspended for this absolute disregard of ethical practices. Do you people even have ethics trainings in your company?
  • Mx_Fee commented  ·   ·  Report

    An intern with MS Paint could have done better. This is ridiculous. No AI.
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