Here's an idea Twitch; don't use the ******* plagiarism machine for emotes. It's super wasteful of resources and for what? Stealing artists work to launder it through an unthinking machine and generate garbage. Come on Twitch, do better.

You have an entire art tag on twitch and have an entire creatives community yet you proceed to use AI trash instead of commissioning one of your Twitch Partners or Affiliates for a simple emote.

AI has stuff that it's good at and can help with, but trying to force it into every aspect of our lives ruins it. forcing AI into art, music, writing, and so many of these aspects that need humans is just ruining the industry. There are many ways AI can be used like translation and a first step to proof reading, but using it to write whole pieces and using it as the only proof reading, just doesn't work.

I don't know what to say that isn't already been said before. AI sucks it hurting the artist community which is by the way half if not most of the community here. how can what I'd assume a billion dollar company hop on something so lazy, given the chance twitch can ask and get bombarded with streamers to share their work and ideas for emotes, isn't that what twitch is? people sharing their passion?

Absolute no to genAI slop forever, bar none. It's lazy, it's stupid, it's destructive, it's ugly, it's cheapskatey, it's disrespectful, it's unacceptable. It's like taking a dog **** you found on the ground and trying to serve it at a restaurant after firing your kitchen staff. Do better. Be better.

don't. ever. use. generative AI. for. creating. emotes. or. anything else. that. a real artist. can. do. instead. please. freaking. please.

please, please please just replace this with a real artist's work (it still can be computer generated, not to be confused with generative AI, it ABSOLUTELY cannot be generative AI, or text to image or whatever)

This is incredibly insulting, specifically to your artist community, to generate an AI emote with no effort to reach out to someone to create it for your site. We spend hours on your site and all you have to show for that as a high end company is to rely on a generator instead of commissioning one of the millions and millions of artists who use your platform for such a small project. The thought that you find paying an artist too much of a hassle for just this alone is a spit in the face of the entire art community. Disgusting and cheap.

Artists legit carry most of this website. Even streamers that have nothing to do with art 9 times out of 10 have needed one at some point. It frustrates me beyond belief.

Twitch using generative AI to avoid paying real artists for their work is a disheartening decision, to say the very least. Many of us who stream on Twitch, especially in the vtuber community, make constant efforts to protect the integrity of our art and to preserve the rights of our artists. Twitch as a platform should be expected to uphold that integrity to the highest degree, not exploit genAI as a cheap way to make emotes and other assets. We who make up the Twitch streamer community hope to see Twitch reverse this decision and do better going forward.

That emote looks suspiciously weird and AI like
I have no idea why it looks so bad other than it really is made with AI
Please 🥺🙏 I beg you wholeheartedly, do not use AI graphics in any way. Also please don't hire artists who use AI either.
I could just hand draw this emote for you instead. Just send me a DM!
Love you Twitch, but you should not have global emotes made by AI assistance in any way.

Twitch is a great site to find new artist or even learn art. Being able to ask a question, then have an artist respond and show an example is really valuable.

Using AI for new global emotes does not highlight these artist on twitch. Why have an AI make an emote when you can promote a famous artist that people can go watch as they learn about this new emote they made.

As an artist myself, it is incredibly disheartening to see a platform I genuinely enjoy being a part of do something as disgusting as use AI as an official emote. Get rid of this and do better.

As an artist and a fan of art streamers + variety streamers such as TinaKitten that also dabble in art, I am SO disappointed in twitch.

NO AI! For the sake of the environment (it uses horrendous amounts of energy to produce what it does), and for the sake of morality (its built upon stolen artwork without the consent of millions of artists.)

As an artist I have lost sales and followings over AI slop on everything and now I am left with emotes being the only art that people still come to me for. This is ridiculous. The AI wouldn't even be what it is without all the creators that they are trained with. As someone who is unable to work a normal job, art is what I have. And now I am being stripped of that too.

This just feels really lazy considering how much talent twitch has on their platform.

This is such a deeply terrible insult to the artists that use your platform! You could easily pay any artist $30 for an emote but instead you chose a creepy AI cat over them

This decision is so disrespectful to artists and creatives that drive the actual value Twitch. Artists deserve to be paid, and users deserve a platform that actually pays artists.

Guys, come on, there ain't no way you're that hard up on cash for an artist. You guys usually have SOMEWHAT a tradition of holding up twitch celebrities and artists when it came to your emotes, don't change to do this stupid ****.

btw it looks like garbage, why is the tongue part of the teeth in the front? ... slop.

I completely agree, no AI emotes, please.

For a platform that only exists because of the hard work of its many creators, releasing an emote created with the technology that is built on shamelessly ripping off these very same creators is incredibly insulting. Seriously, is not a single one of the people responsible for this emote capable of simply taking a picture of a cat and photoshopping a santa hat on it? Was AI slop truly necessary here?