Twitch have created the Artist & Makers Creator Club, as a Member of this it kinda feels like a slap in a face... come on we just had a great team of artist spend weeks on holiday themed emotes you could of used ANY ONE OF THEM... here they are: https://x.com/plushunagi/status/1863281498100580686?s=46

Why should we give you money, content, and patronage when you can't be bothered to hire and pay for actual artists?

No AI please

WE. DO. NOT. WANT. AI. I don't know how many other ways to tell you this, but nobody on Earth wants generative AI slop except for:

* Tech industry con-artists whose continued existence depends on tricking investors into believing their theft-based curiosity will ever develop into something that generates a profit instead of devouring billions of dollars for no good reason whatsoever, and

* Overpaid executives who despise the working class so bitterly that they will seize upon any opportunity to exploit people and steal things that don't belong to them while claiming to be more important to the profit of Twitch than the people who ACTUALLY CREATE THE THINGS PEOPLE WATCH TWITCH FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE.

There is no shortage of working artists streaming on this very website, you see? Like, there's a WHOLE LOT of them. Almost any of them could be commissioned to create emotes for Twitch's usage.

And you know the best part? None of them, by creating artwork, are actively destroying the environment of the planet we all live on - including Twitch executives, believe it or not - unlike the heat-generating, electricity-hogging, water-evaporating generative AI slop that everyone hates. AND, by commissioning - AND PAYING - artists for their work, you can also prove to Anubis that your heart isn't leaden and blackened by contempt for working class people just trying to survive in the capitalist hellscape your boss has a hand in making.

So, perhaps, as a little Christmas miracle this year, perhaps Twitch could STOP trying to slip generative AI feces into our mouths every few months in the hopes that we won't notice their pattern of utter contempt for the creators they regularly exploit in order to line Jeff Bezos' sweat-stained hatband with blood diamonds and Dalmatian puppy fur.

STOP MAKING THE WORLD A WORSE PLACE, TWITCH, FOR GOD'S SAKE.

AI is so bad, you could’ve gotten an actual artist. If you wanted it realistic/photograph quality, grab a kitten, a lickable treat, a good camera and a tiny Santa hat. There ARE other ways than AI.

one of the largest businesses in streaming is making art assets for overlays, vtuber models, icons, panels, notifications, and emotes. by making emotes with AI, twitch makes clear that they do not respect the time, effort, or skill of real artists who's work gets stolen and fed into ai data banks

Couldn't find a real cat to put a Santa hat on? Get this AI garbage out of here.

This could have:
Been made by an artist, who would have put work into it, adding both human value to it and bringing In the community to contribute to part of twitch
OR
just... an actual photo. like...
its probably out there
It probably wouldn't be hard to set up if not.
but instead you chose to, in one action, disrespect every single self respecting artist on your platform by using this AI slot. come on twitch, do better.
and since its cooperate brain we probably have to get through to: It would probably be CHEAPER THAN PAYING FOR AI SERVICES (and better for the environment to)
Seriously though, for a SINGULAR emote most artists dont even charge that much, and you get what ya want immediately, you dont have to generate dozens if not hundreds of ai vomit images to get one "decent" one (it still looks like hecc)
OH WAIT
THERES ALSO PHOTOSHOP YOU CAN USE
Ya'll really dont care much for the community huh?

If you're looking for an extremely efficient and effective way to destroy your users' trust, Twitch has very clearly found it!

Not only does this spit in the face of every artist in the community, but to many of those fighting to bring a positive ecological/environmental change through the site's usage of charities too.

There is such an amazing thoughtlessness to the release of this emote and the fact that it made it all the way to release in this way shows Twitch's priorities and how it feels about its users very clearly.

Ai art is the most garbage thing to ever exist. THOUSANDS OF ARTIST AND YOU CHOOSE LAZINESS AND SLOP OVER AN ARTIST TO DRAW ONE EMOTE. This is unacceptable in every way.

I agree with OP. This is very disappointing and makes it seem like Twitch does not care about the artists on their platform. Someone goofed with this idea. Now it is time to fix it and do better.

Come on, Twitch. This seems like it was an exercise in pure laziness. Paying someone for an emote isn't going to break the bank of a company the size of Twitch.

AI is for losers.

No AI! Artists are already struggling, we don't need to make it worse. Either use random funny moments like ResidentSleeper or commission someone to make new emojis, NOT AI!!!

COME ON, ARE YOU SERIOUS NOW??? You have thousands of amazing skilled artists who would be more than willing to draw emotes for you. So many artists would love to draw for you, so why use AI slop!? AI slop is bad morally, environmentally, and visually.

“Oh yes, I would love for AI to drink a pint of water and burn half of a tree so that I can generate amalgamated slop instead of the prettier art tehehehe!” NO. STOP. HIRE ARTISTS OR GET BENT.

AI will never attain a fraction of the pure heart and spirit that goes into art.

Ai is trash

AI is pretty wack just have a artist do it

Unfortunate that they would even consider this

There are so many artists that they could have chosen on their own platform to do these emojis but they rather used ai for it. That is really disappointing.