If you want emotes made... just pay artists to actually make them for you, you have thousands upon thousands of artist on your **** platform and you refuse to do that because big daddy Bezos doesn't want to spend anymore of his precious billions

The post below me is very incorrect AI generation is theft it takes peoples creations without consent and it can never create something with effort put in in all you do is put in a few words and let a soulless machine pop out an equally soulless image AI Generation is not art Ai art is not art it is Just plain theft no one is putting in effort to actual make something from the heart and soul its just amalgamation of stolen content and Really calling artists jealous of Ai is a JOKE does ai have its own style built up from years of work and influence and making somthing that is thier own and the jerk below me is just plain wrong we are not against ai/machine learning in medical field we are against it being used to replace humans that create unique images and videos in thier own way ai just produces a ****** soulless product that has no concept of what makes a good image a good image its just code and learning to attempt to make something pleasant and it fails AI generated images is theft and moral and wrong and i am following my own train of thought if you took parts from someone else property to build your computer that is a crime stealing tires from someone else is a crime AI generation is theft so it should be treated as a DANG CRIME.;

100% every artist that hates AI is a bitter + jealous + ignorant sheep who can't create their own opinions or follow their own train of thought.

AI is 100% peaceful to art and can only help artists + cure poverty + solve global energy crisis.

Artists have 0% scientific knowledge or any math/ engineering in their brains. Stay in Your Own Boat. You have no right to "witch-hunt" scientists for saving the world.

I will repost ALL art on twitter to help their AI generation process <3 I will not ask for your permission

Wow, imagine being a company so broke you can't even pay an artist to make an emote for you. So instead you use free AI that's not even good to steal work from others. What a company.

completely agree. using generative AI is a slap in the face for everyone, no matter how it's used.
if we say that it's ok to use it for SiLlY emotes/memes/shitposts, that would lead to more and more consequences down the line. we need to draw the line at using generative AI altogether

Geez Twitch, at least take some effort and steal somebody's art like the good old days. At least an artist gets something out of it then.

You have probably hundreds of artists using your platform you could've commissioned, yet you go with AI garbage like that horrendous emote? I'm honestly not surprised though, given how lazy you seem to be with moderation on your platform.

AI art has no soul, no spark of creation, it's nothing more than a cheap way to """make""" something and it ends up being horrendous. Either use an actual photo of a cat, or ask one of the HUNDREDS OF TALENTED ARTISTS to design one. It's not that hard.

Please don't use AI art in emotes - it's theft and a disservice to actual human artists out there.

AI art is HEAVILY based in theft, countless artists have been stolen from, and a lot of them don't give consent and are still stolen from, art has also been stolen from dead artists who can't say yes. Not only that but AI has problems keeping things consistent, in which the emote in question is missing half the whiskers, and the face just is no right, you can see it at the eyes and nose. Even if it was a "good" emote, it's still unethical, and it sends the message to artists on twitch that you don't care about their work. Many people are banning it outright from their chats because of what it stands for.

hey twitch maybe don't do ai?

It's absurd that there are people who think complaining about this is "absurd" on a platform that thrives from artists drawing emotes. This is just flat out disrespectful to every single one of them, and just to save a penny, awful.

Oh my god they just moved the entire stream info bar to the top of the video (used to be on the bottom, obvi, anyone with eyes will notice the change) likely as a completely harmless but intrusive change to distract us from the AI emote fiasco. Bravo, Twitch, absolutely spineless move.

When your new global emote is blocked in half the channels I go to, you know you messed up

There are tons of artists using your platforming. Supporting AI art is a slap in the face.

Moon said it perfectly. Pay creators, not the computers that steal from them.

People are being absurd. Don't like it, don't use it. Quit calling for things to be banned.

Banning this emote in my channel. It would have been cheap if not almost free to just take a picture of a staff member's cat and photoshop a Santa hat on it and it would have been so much cuter and fit the "vibe" of global emotes. But nope, we got this soulless slop that is anatomically incorrect and steals parts from images without permission. Do better.

This is happening with every single company under the sun. No matter what they're saying or what their mission is, they'll be testing the waters. And as the tech improves, we've got to remain vigilant.

AI emotes are disgusting, Twitch. Don't do it! I'll also be asking the streamers I watch to ban the emote on their channels.