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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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  • cynique commented  ·   ·  Report

    **** yall the cheap knock off now having to use AI huh?
  • Witch_Of_Steam commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a subsidiary of Amazon, one of the richest companies on earth

    If they can't afford to pay a real artist like 15$ for a Real emote, Maybe they should sell the company off to someone capable of running a Business.

  • bloopiest commented  ·   ·  Report

    Way to spite your entire art section, twitch
  • Haumaida commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone in the artists and makers clubs it’s really disheartening to see with use AI to create an emote like this! You could have done so much that was AI! Twitch can afford to hire an artist! Or at the bare minimum you could’ve asked the Artist and Makers club about making It a competition!
  • plastic_red commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist and twitch stream watcher, I'd like to echo this petition in saying that this is a slap in the face of the creative that make your platform possible. Instead of bringing the community together, instead Twitch ha chosen to show how little they care about the bespoke details like emotes that makes things special. Nevermind the glaring lack of quality control--the kitten's teeth aren't even growing in the right place. Partner with an artist, have them draw an emote for you and flush this AI garbage down the drain. I'm sure I'm not alone in my choice to not subscribe to any channel that makes use of this emote.

  • bensaunders commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm not anti-AI but you could have paid a real person like $20 for this
  • golden9751 commented  ·   ·  Report

    I barely use twitch and this still upsets me
  • B00GIEpunk commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of any kind of AI for design purposes is a slap in the collective face towards the skilled artists and creatives on this platform. It's insulting and degrading.
  • CantSalvageThis commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hundreds of artists and billions of cat photos in the world and this is the best twitch can do? It makes you look cheap and tacky.

  • sachi_techless commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI has no place in official Twitch events, it cheapens the work of artists who help make Twitch what it is in emotes.
  • kitakins commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI for an uncreative emote of all things implies twitch is too poor or too stingy to hire an actual artist. Frankly its embarrassing to see.
  • theproverbialinn commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many skilled artists (and/or people with cute cats) on this site, that using genAI to make emotes is spitting in the face of all of them.

    It also makes Twitch look incredibly disingenuous when they turn around and "celebrate the creative minds" on the site. If they loved them so much, they wouldn't use such problematic (and by problematic, I mean awfully unethical in its current state) technology.

    Shame, shame, shame.
  • Agent_ToadToad7 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Actually banning this emote as a targeted word, ain't nobody gonna use this in my community.
  • Sibyl_Pastry commented  ·   ·  Report

    Genuinely disgusting honestly. AI is killing creativity. Does twitch support the death of art?
  • theshurikenfox commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch. You’ve already been knee deep in controversy for finding ways to be as consumer and creator unfriendly as possible in recent years, allowing simple things to potentially mess up people’s careers, and using AI is not going to help your image. You still have time to redeem yourself and apologise, no cutting corners.
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