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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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  • SatopTato commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. I think it's weird to have AI when there are a lot of artists that look to make emotes..
  • StarChip commented  ·   ·  Report

    If the future is AI and not using the talent of real artists like myself I feel this is disrespectful...
  • KassieKalico commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm genuinely really appaled twitch has still not removed this emote
  • ferretmagic commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a platform that hosts large amounts of wonderful artists that do great work. This is completely and utterly disrespectful.
  • whristopher_catkins commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is disrespectful to an artist to rather use generative AI instead of paying a likely modest fee for a person’s time and creativity. The platforms like Twitch is carried by creative gamers and the community who follow because of the connection created. If we don’t give this space for them to create in every direction, from an emote to their vtube persona and everything in between, it dissolves the purpose of the site.

  • CottonScrambles commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist who streams on twitch, seeing that they chose to use AI instead of paying an artist is a slap in the face.

  • WaywardJack_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch disrespecting artists and slapping them in the face with this AI slop is disappointing to see especially with how much artists contribute to it's platform. Artists are the lifeblood of Twitch from making emotes, to designing channel mascots, overlays, vtubers, alerts and so on. To shove AI generated art in everyone's faces is to encourage laziness and theft of the hard work artists put into creating everything. Promote and encourage artists by giving them a chance to shine. Be better than this Twitch.
  • quiet_victories commented  ·   ·  Report

    another platform excited to self destruct and plague itself with ai waste, yuppie
  • GoblinPaladinRoselia commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI has no place here, especially given the vast amount of creative people here who actually make things. Using such methods to produce false art like this is disgraceful.

  • Willustrator commented  ·   ·  Report

    **** Twitch and their AI slop, either support and pay actual artists or don't bother
  • SeathCreed commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don't use AI to make slop and pay people to make quality products people will actually buy
  • LittleMessenger commented  ·   ·  Report

    The platform lives off artists, this feels like getting stabbed in the back, please absolutely remove this and think of instead a rule against AI on the platform.

  • EivorHeldottir commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch: There are so many people with actual talent you can work with. Why use a robot? The images given are always unimaginative, weird, and often in the uncanny valley. Real art from real people wins over the nightmare fuel AI imagery.
  • itsmejess_nz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey Twitch! You have a lot of people who use your platform who you could commission to make global emotes, and yet you choose to use AI to do this. It would be great to see you use actual artist work and support people who make these for a living instead of using short cuts.
  • hardstuckcardboard commented  ·   ·  Report

    It’s a cat, man… you don’t even have to hire someone; the same person that took the time to finesse the prompts and pack it for release could have cut out a cat face on their own **** phone, without even using Photoshop.
  • Leiishroom commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of AI slop for something that could be done in photoshop is just plain disgusting. Signalling that you're okay with AI generated images, or even endorsing them is a massive middle finger to the many artists on your platform
  • shy_daddy1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey Twitch, I may not be an artist, but you should be using actual work done by an artist for a global emote for a globally recognized holiday. Please kindly remove your head from each other's collective *****.

  • Legion_Of_Lambeth commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feels like a huge slap in the face to the many many artists on your platform.
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