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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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  • 1zzy_draws commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ugly, lazy, and insulting. If you don't care enough to make a thing the right way, don't make it.
  • clarionDURIAN commented  ·   ·  Report

    genAI emotes like CatintheChat are ethically questionable and esthetically queasy.
  • SybilTheMoth commented  ·   ·  Report

    I feel it should be stated that we do have means of drawing attention to this issue without you making a public statement.

    I and many others have already begun banning the phrase 'catinthechat' to do away with your emote. It's the perfect way to start a discourse in to AI and its unethical impact on the environment and creatives alike, and my OBS has this wonderful blown up picture of it so we can all have a laugh at how garbage the emote is.

    If you don't want to do the right thing, we'll simply have to do it for you. No cat in my chat, thanks.
  • KuroiTheBunny commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don't use Ai for emotes on a Platform where one of your main categories is ART. It's like showing to the people that bring public to Twitch that you don't care for your Streamers. Instead, why not commission one streammer every month to make a exclusive global emote?
  • entertainer13 commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a viewer of actual human artists on Twitch using AI is something ai can not agree with. At all.

  • Zachberriez commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist constantly working hard to make art for myself and others, this is such ********. Do better twitch this is disgusting and shameless.
  • mzbwitch commented  ·   ·  Report

    IM a artist and this is AI Garbage is trash and disrespectful to all artists on the platform Support the real artists in the art category we create alot of emotes and ect Do Better Twitch

  • whiteklawz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Honestly DISGUSTING and disrespectful. Twitch is getting worse each day, cheap and shameless.

  • krux702 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Shameful and an insult to the many artists that use your platform to create content. No one wants GenAI artwork. It looks bad. It doesn't go toward crediting the artists that were used for the training data. Everyone hates it.
  • AttacRacc commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch we know you have $30 in your pocket to commission an artist for an emote, come on now.

  • angelaachan commented  ·   ·  Report

    So Twitch has enough money to spend on TIMES SQUARE ADS for the yearly recaps but not for a singular emote? Embarassing.
  • Oceanity commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would have cost you like $50-60 to just get an artist to make something that looks way better than this that would also result in community goodwill, but nah, gotta tell your shareholders you're "integrating AI into your platform" I guess.

    Replace this emote with something that actually celebrates the community, this soulless garbage has no place on Twitch.
  • CheeksVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Support artists and their work, not fools who want emotes for nothing.
  • rosebudorwatevr commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch using genAI undermines any efforts to uplift the artists on their platform, and makes them seem like empty platitudes rather than genuine attempts at support
  • Zenibuka commented  ·   ·  Report

    Might as well delete the Art category alltogether, what a bunch of garbage
  • AuroraAstra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Support the artists on your platform and get a real emote made! not this AI GARBAGE! THE MOUTH IS ALL MESSED UP, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS IS FINE
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