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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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  • SerinaNight commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art is theft, and until all AI are trained on legally obtained material (after removing the contaminated training data) using them to generate images is theft. As others have mentioned it completely undermines any attempts to claim you support artists, and actively spits in their faces to use them on your platform where you earn money off their hard work, while stealing from them. Please remove any AI generated data from your website.
  • Ashezth commented  ·   ·  Report

    please, Twitch. STOP PULLING THIS ****. WE SEE YOU. WE WILL LEAVE.
  • TanyMeteor commented  ·   ·  Report

    lmao. Twitch, you guys are constantly in the red, are you trying to sabotage yourselves or something? When I see GenAI slop it usually signals a few things: Incompetence, inefficiency, laziness, an unwillingness to compromise or bargain, and do even the most basic, reasonable business decisions. If you guys are going to use GenAI slop for even the smallest of things, I'm assuming you just don't want to be here and are trying to cheap out on doing business with anyone. There are plenty of actual, real artists on Twitch that you could commission or hire to make emotes. Utilizing GenAI slop just makes you look pathetic and lazy.

    But I guess, since you guys are constantly in the red, you're trying to make yourselves look good by spending less, or some other stupid business-esque excuse like that. Good luck! You're already burning your reputation as fuel, but I guess accelerating that process will help you save the big bucks despite trying to burn every bridge connected to you.
  • SeaSimba commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is literally just lazy, Twitch.

  • AkrivexVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    No AI ever for emotes and art.
    In fact not ever
  • ErrolVenn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Kindly keep ai slop out of an area (emotes) that is predominantly filled by actual artists.
  • RingmasterKaiden commented  ·   ·  Report

    Do not use AI for global emotes. There are many of us against the use of commercial AI. It being basically forced into our chats is not welcome.
  • AlyssaSMW commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art is theft, you can afford to do better twitch. Pay an artist or do it yourself, but don't steal art or support AI.
  • SeedyZ commented  ·   ·  Report

    For all the effort Twitch did to support artists (Arts and Crafts category, emote credits, etc.), using AI generated emotes spits in the face of every artist on the platform. Why not commission one of the thousands of artists on the platform to make the emote?
  • TirusR commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is a highly unethical and unpopular technology.

    If that wasn't enough, it also just looks bad. Seriously.
  • ThunderTHR commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have enough money to pay for an artist to create this emote for you.
    Show that you actually CARE instead of resorting to AI.
  • P2isonline commented  ·   ·  Report

    Incredibly sad to hear about an AI generated emote. Twitch is a fantastic home for artists and creators a like and this is a huge smack in the face to the creators who have, frankly, made your platform look as good as it does.

    Vtubers, IRL streamers, gamers, and anyone with a stream layout or emotes rely on artists to make their channel their home. Use of AI to create images is stealing their work and showing that you do not respect their skills on your platform.

    Remove this emote and replace it with one of the many willing, able, and exciting creative artists you have on this platform, as you have done in the past.

  • YomiQuinnley commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI will only hurt twitch and all in the long run. Artists are the backbone of streams.
  • GrislyBoar commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a slap in the face to every artist who uses your platform to share their process and boost their work. So often lately that decisions made by Twitch show active contempt for the streamers who form the backbone of this platform.

    You really couldn't afford to toss a paltry sum at an artist or photographer for a proper emote? You just HAD to use that disgusting generative "AI" algo garbage that is built entirely on art theft?

    I wish I could say I was surprised at this point.
  • GrugsPro commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI makes products and services look cheap and lazy, stop using it
  • Kharne83 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The correct way to use AI generated assets is don't.
  • kona_kei commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please do not use AI when we have thousands of talented artists. Twitch is a creative space that thrives with and because of its artists. AI has no place in that.
  • PartyDemoness commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't know why you'd think this is a good idea when so many of your user base are artists. Like. Come on now.
  • seraphblade25 commented  ·   ·  Report

    For a platform that promotes creativity and artists, to create an AI emote is a massive disappointment. instead of being cheap and lazy how about you actually support the hard working people you claim to support
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