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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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  • candythecane commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get rid of this AI garbage and hire a **** artist

  • xbellezax commented  ·   ·  Report

    It isnt difficult to just hire an artist with the millions of dollars you make from about everyone who makes money from your platform every month and save yourself the bad PR and bad everything resulted from this
  • nabijay commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is disrespectful to all the artists who stream on your platform.
  • AuraDragoness commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have literally HUNDREDS of talented artists on Twitch. Hundreds upon hundreds. Commission one or more of them for emotes. Never EVER use genAI for any art assets on this site. EVER. It is lazy, exploitative, and just says "I don't care" on the whole. Don't.
  • doodlemancy commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI:

    -is trained on stolen data and the stolen labor of artists without permission, and the datasets have even included CSAM and private medical information

    -is also trained and maintained with the labor of exploited and underpaid workers

    -has destroyed jobs, not by actually being able to replace workers but by convincing very stupid bosses that it can

    -wastes electricity and water and contributes to climate change without producing anything of any value

    -looks like trash

    just pay an artist. one emoji isn't going to break the bank for the literal biggest streaming site on the internet. this is so embarrassing, twitch dot tv
  • ArchidTronUltra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please Twitch, make this right. Show us you hear us and remove or replace the emote.

  • DoctorSockrates commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whoever ultimately greenlit this lacks cultural competence & awareness in a position that demands it.

  • HoneySlimeLive commented  ·   ·  Report

    no AI whatsoever is wanted or needed when there are so many real artists on this platform
  • Znailien commented  ·   ·  Report

    Artists are always better than bots; AI is made to steal from artists and make an abominable amalgamation- Artists put their soul, their own life into things they create, taking years of their life for that craft. We (speaking with fellow artists) deserve recognition and support from the platform so many use to promote it, to benefit it.
    The use of AI for a simple EMOTE is just entirely uncalled for and disrespectful to the community the site wants to keep.

    Sincerely signed, Artists against AI.
  • ZainZyra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ironic how I had to prove I was human to vote against AI, isn't it?
  • AussieKitten commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI "Art" (notice the quotations) is a slap in the face to all artists, even those who use your platform, Twitch.

    Twitch, do better.
    Hire one of the many talented artists out there to make a real emote, not some fake garbage. Thank you!
  • Spicy_Bara commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art isn't art. It steals from actual artists, while looking infinitely worse in every way, shape, and form. It's insulting that twitch created an artist creators club, and then released an AI emote. You have a bevy of talented artists that would have jumped at this opportunity, and instead chose to slap them in the face. Extremely disappointed
  • booksnob commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is environmentally damaging and a horrible precedent for a website based around artists of all kinds.
  • LundMaster commented  ·   ·  Report

    Use of ai art instead of one of the many talented artists on this platform is an off putting aspect to face. Please do not give artists another place where ai art is pushed into everyone's faces as no one who truely respects artist or their work would appreciate it.
  • DoodleDoggy_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nobody likes AI art. We don't want AI on the platform. It sucks. All this does is imply you guys can't afford to hire someone to draw a cat in a Santa hat. Please come to your senses.
  • facefullabugs commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is extremely discouraging as someone who uses twitch to stream art, and makes me wonder if other platforms are more supportive of artists.

  • MeraMizu commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is so gross. Please support real artists!!

  • PrincessAshan commented  ·   ·  Report

    absolutely disgusting of twitch using ai for global emotes, or anything at all really, youre so out of touch with your users its actually insane.
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