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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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  • GraveyardMoth commented  ·   ·  Report

    using AI for a global emote is so lazy when there is a limitless supply of skilled artists on Twitch and off Twitch who could do much better and make something actually worth trying to earn. no one is excited to earn or use AI generated emotes, you need to do better than this.
  • stereobass commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disappointing to see considering you have commissioned emote artists in the past and have the artists and makers creator club to reach out to :/
  • ChipsSea commented  ·   ·  Report

    EXTREMELY disappointing to see them using AI for things like this...
  • TheNixieNova commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is not only unethical in regards to stealing art but it is also incredibly bad for the environment. Twitch has a platform FULL of talented artists, there is absolutely no reason they should be using AI to make a simple emote.
  • n0xe7 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI should be banned from commercial use. That's all I have to say.
  • ShatteredChrystal commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disappointed to see this, especially after the artist creator club along with other clubs. Please consider working with the amazing content creators that are part of the artist club instead. This just shows you going backwards and not forwards. The bridge is falling apart before its gotten the chance to be built

  • Hnetu commented  ·   ·  Report

    No one likes AI emotes, just pay an artist twitch. I realize you guys keep making bad decisions and are hemorrhaging money but c'mon you can get a good, static emote for like $35. Don't use AI, it's gross.
  • Etarberec commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wait so why is Twitch not just commissioning its prominent artist fan base? The use of AI art for this is just plain wrong.
  • aijyuu commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many talented artists on your platform. So many artists would love the commission or even to do it for free.
  • drefizz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch please stop making out of touch stupid decisions

  • hyperphantasia commented  ·   ·  Report

    YOU HAVE HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS ON YOUR PLATFORM WHO WOULD HAPPILY DRAW AN EMOTE, EVEN FOR FREE, AND YOU DO THIS, TWITCH?
  • GrinningNeko commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am not an artist myself, but artists are integral part of not only Vtubing but also Content Creation in general!

    Keep AI art out of twitch, support your artists!

  • FriendlyFrankenstein commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely cannot in any way whatsoever abide by twitch using AI to make an emote. We make y'all enough money, cmon.

  • SourceQuench commented  ·   ·  Report

    Plagiarism isn't right, clever or funny. Even if you automate it on a large scale and call it "generative AI".
  • hypofroge commented  ·   ·  Report

    Moon summarized it perfectly. We don't want generative AI on the platform, it harms creatives *and* the environment. Remove the emote.

  • FaynOrvin commented  ·   ·  Report

    I may not be an artist but I am very much anti AI art-
    And also whether it is from that or the artstyle in general, but even looking at that "generic AI art art style" makes me uncomfortable. (maybe it's an uncanny valley kind of thing?)
    So both from a moral and visual perspective, I'd prefer to not have a global emote, that literally anyone can send in chat, be put in my chat. I don't want to get an AI art jumpscare mid-stream.
    @.Twitch Get an Artist to draw you one instead, or even a picture of an actual cat.
  • TastingKitty commented  ·   ·  Report

    You literally have an entire community of talented artists and instead you use AI 💀

    Y'all can choke tbh
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