Not only is this emote insulting to actual artists who use this platform, it especially rings as lazy given the fact that Twitch added several new hype train emotes just back in May. Those emotes were made by and highlighted the talents of LumpyTouch, noirpunk, symon_redd, and many more. Why, now, is it too hard to partner with and give a spotlight to another talented artist?

Twitch has always been profiting off of the hard work of artist, the one almost fair part of that exchange is the voice it "gives" those artists, for this platform to now be able to use work created by algorithms derived from stolen artwork would be an abysmal breach of ethics and integrity that goes above and beyond corporate cronyism. Please maintain some semblance of dignity and disavow any use of Generative AI on twitch, especially where emotes are concerned. The platform is literally filled with human emote creators. I fear for twitches future if it conyinues to push the envelope on PR disasters such as this. The future will never remember mass marauders well, Generative AI usong systems built on theft is no different. Please consider th3se words. Thank you for your time.

I'm a human artist who makes emotes for Twitch. This decision Directly affects me financially, both as an artist and streamer here on Twitch. This decision is frankly disgusting.

As if they don't have endless funds to commission actual artists or just edit a royalty free image into an emote.

You have HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of artists who would be ECSTATIC to be able to create an emote on the platform.
SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE USING YOUR PLATFORM DAILY.
And you still choose to ignore ALL of them and go for AI, which more than likely has HARMED them by scraping their art of the internet already to save a quick buck.
This is a SHAMEFUL display, Twitch. Hopefully Dan sees this and fixes the blunder.
GenAI is PHYSICALLY anti-creator.
Your platform thrives because of creators. Take a moment and consider next time.

they've gotten so many cool emotes from actual people, why suddenly decide to do this <___>

don't talk about wanting to support your creatives and then pull this cmon.

This is a major disrespect to artists globally, and especially for a platform like Twitch where countless creators use it as a part of their careers. Please reconsider this and instead hire a real, human artist.

Don't use AI when there are plenty of talented creators you can choose from who would do a MUCH better job.

Rather disappointed in this overall. Not cool Twitch.

I find AI art deeply unappealing ethically and aesthetically.

There are thousands of artist and creative who find their voice and share their creativity on Twitch. Of those hundreds of thousands the choice to instead use AI generated art that is known to not only be unethical in energy usage but also in the fact that this illegal uses art and photos without a user's consent is a dangerous and harmful message to set forth and use. I'd request hiring an artist to create a series of Christmas themed emotes as a way to show solidarity to the community and remove this and any other AI generated/created emotes. Please listen to the voice of the creators and artist you have on your platform.

As an artist, this is such a sad thing to see come from Twitch. There are so many talented artists on the platform, you have the money and the means to hire one of them to make you an emote. I hope the bad publicity was worth it just to save a bit of money. This is just an insult to your creators.

Really Twitch? You already had a terrible public image. This new AI chat emote is tanking that even further. Remove it immediately and pay actual artists for your emotes.

There are tens of thousands of artists on the Twitch platform, and y'all chose to produce a soulless mimic of their work instead. No, we aren't gonna allow it.

The emote Is In bad taste. Artists carry this website on their backs along with streamers, please remove this insult.

The entire premise of Twitch depends on human expression, creativity, and interaction. AI art is the literal opposite of that, and is an insult to both your streamers and viewers.

Twitch, why shoot yourself in the foot after making something as amazing as the creator club with a specific artist section

let's not forget the efforts you made to invite artists of all types to make hypetrain emotes

you destroy all of that trust built up by artists if you choose to keep AI in emotes in production. I'm surprised internal discussions didn't think about how important it was to keep your already improving standing with artists and think from an artist's perspective. I'm no artist, but its easy to sympathize with a topic as damaging as this.

Stop with this AI garbage, you have a bazillion emote artists on twitch, hire them. Stop taking the easy way out!

All AI art has the exact same lighting and generic looks that stick out like a sore thumb because they don't know the nuance of actually drawing. You have so many talented artists on your platform and choose to ignore them. Remove AI art and hire real talent.

Hire an artist, stop using AI slop. This is disgraceful to all the artists who stream on here.