Kinda weird to do this right after making an artist Creator Club, Twitch. Like do you support artists or not?

Hey, Twitch I'd appreciate if you stopped spitting in the face of artists, thanks.

Why does Twitch love to alienate the people who make it work? Why is this their core obsession? You have legions of artists using your platform, & working for you, & you decided to...tap none of that talent? Madness. Villainy. Time to finally move all my revenue off of Twitch entirely.

AI is an insult to creatives; that thing your platform is built on. It also looks cheap and lazy, which is the impression Twitch has been leaving on me as a whole for a while now

Global emotes are part of a collective community across the platform. To allow AI to just create them takes away the creativity and personality of the individuals Channel Twitch is a place of creativity and if the people in charge aren't willing to support artists then they shouldn't have any input on the platform itself.

Twitch, I’m sure you’d rather we stream games we payed for to own legally rather than pirate, right? So why use AI to make your emotes when the way said AI works effectively makes it piracy by another name? You have a TREASURE TROVE of talented artists who make art better than AI can create almost effortlessly. Go to them and pay them. That helps recognize people who put their blood, sweat and tears into bringing people to your platform. That way, more people will come to YOUR website to watch them game, create, do WHATEVER. But while free, using AI will promote nobody, create subpar art and drive away artists. Need I remind you how that went for Xitter. If you don’t want people making you the second site people begin a mass exodus from in favor of bringing their business to your competitors like Trovo or whatever, do better. Remove AI emotes and NEVER consider them again.

Ive been losing interest in a lot of the big social media sites for years due to them progressively feeling out of touch, or unable to actually make meaningful changes to grow and improve their platforms. Twitch using something as shameful as Generative AI for site "artwork" such as emotes being a prime example. Not only for the tone-deafness toward the ethical and moral concerns surrounding this technology that feels like a backhand to the creative communities that MADE twitch what it is today. But also for the fact that these images these GenAI technologies produce hold no legal standing in terms of copyright protections in the USA. So its a one-two punch of coming across as cold and uncaring toward your user base, and leaving the images you're using to make you're site up in the air legally in my opinion, just hoping that no one else tries to use it. (Since a DMCA take down only applies to copyright protected materials as far as I'm aware. Of course I'm not a lawer, but the number of class actions against this technologies creators currently, and the Supreme court already handing down a decision deeming this tech cant have copyright protections would give me pause on even trying to do so should I try and place myself in the shoes of Twitch Executives.)

Overall, I'm incredibly disappointed to see this technology used again by a large corporation, but not surprised. Its another nail in the long since buried coffin that's driven me away from this site and multiple others like it. All I can do is hope that maybe some form of reason, or basic human empathy takes a hold of whoever thought this was a good move. Please reconsider.

So okay, you could’ve even have a competition where we could’ve made something as the entire twitch community chose to use AI because you’re lazy that’s so crazy.

I understand that Twitch may be saying that their unprofitable, but they need to understand that the community of Twitch especially the artist of Twitch would’ve happily made an emote for Christmas or just an emote for Twitch because that would give us a chance to show off their portfolio and art.

Twitch needs to stop with this laziness and actually speak to the community because at this rate of how it’s going, they’re going to lose a lot of people in the artist community as an artist I’m not quite happy about this.

How is it that we had a really cool artist remake that one Binding of Issac emote....yet you cant find another for this one???? Twitch you care to explain?

Can't agree more. Can say with certainty this emote is not welcome anywhere near my channel.

how about let’s support actual art made by actual human beings? I know that’s hard for yall to understand but maybe you can prove me wrong

Generative AI damages creative industries and the environment. Pay artists.

Imagine sucking so hard at your job you couldn't even draw a little santa hat on a picture of a cat so you have to feed it into a slop machine that will drain the world of resources and prove to everyone that your company is too cheap to hire people with brains. Embarrassing.

When artists and creatives who truly support their work decide that enough is enough and leave Twitch for good—When Papa Bezos eventually deems the platform obsolete and/or no longer an assured investment, tossing it into a ditch—When rain starts pouring down and flooding said ditch... let's see how long your beloved generative AIs will keep the platform afloat before it sinks like a rock!

No AI slop on Twitch!

All you have to do is go to the art category or look at peoples pages where they credit their emote artist. Stop being lazy. Support artists.

Down AI For Speak Down Emote in Remove!!

Bruhhh But L's Twitch Emote AI?!?!

HEY HEY! HO HO! AI EMOTES HAVE TO GO! WE DONT WANT THINGS FROM AN "ARTIST" CALLED 01101001, NO NO!

There are so many artists who you can work with, and you choose to use slop, hurt artists and hurt the environment and your own reputation. Yikers.

Artists aren't hard to find. ****, free use cat pics aren't hard to find. Not to mention that I'm sure any number of Twitch employees, or even streamers, would've loved the opportunity to submit pics of their own **** cats. And you chose AI... wtf is wrong with you!?