Twitch's brand new holiday emoji :CatintheChat: is very clearly made using generative AI. Creatives around Twitch are pissed, as am I. @/moonbtch.bsky.social made a post on Twitch's feedback forum asking Twitch to not use AI, expressing the disappointment we all feel. - ThreadSky

mothicalmoo.bsky.social • 92 days ago

Twitch's brand new holiday emoji :CatintheChat: is very clearly made using generative AI. Creatives around Twitch are pissed, as am I. @/moonbtch.bsky.social made a post on Twitch's feedback forum asking Twitch to not use AI, expressing the disappointment we all feel.

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squidily.bsky.social•91 days ago

It is important to know streamers' stances on this. I will not support people who are okay with the absolute slop produced. The anatomy is all off, and the main point of the emoji (smiling cat) looks like the cat can not eat with its mouth.

squidily.bsky.social•91 days ago

Twitch is a platform with hundreds of artists. Surely, it can not be hard to commission someone to draw a cat. Or perhaps get a staff member to take a photo of one of their cats with a hat on. Instead they insist on using a tool that produced a half baked project.

mothicalmoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

Please vote for this and stand against the use of Gen AI on Twitch. Make your voice heard and tell Twitch that this isn't okay. Moonbtch's post includes most of my feelings, as well as others.

Vote on this issue and tell Twitch what you think

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/928738-badges-emotes/suggestions/49188362-no-ai-for-global-emotes-change-catinthechat

squidily.bsky.social•91 days ago

When you vote, remember to turn emails from comments off! I had tons of emails from them this morning. I signed when it as at 70-ish votes, it is now 10x that.

mothicalmoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

I have added the emoji's name (:CatintheChat:) to the list of blocked terms and phrases on my twitch channel. I will not allow the use of AI garbage on my channel.

ultrawideo.celtic.digital•92 days ago

I take it you mean commercial artistic ai apps, and not things like saleforce, right? (thats the https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CRM:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimt_HIkJaKAxXbU0EAHbpvAE8Q3ecFegQIQhAh that which provides advertisers on websites like twitch the info so they know which ads to target viewers with, in large part by obtaining it without consent)

mothicalmoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

Of course, anything without consent isn't good.

But no, it's not the fact that it's commercial that's the problem.

mothicalmoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

Since that's not optional, its not included in my statement as I have no control over what Twitch uses. I can't do anything about that, regardless how I feel about it.

This emoji is what I refer to with "AI garbage". AI generated images.

ultrawideo.celtic.digital•92 days ago

So generative ai images, then? Would that include the likes of Fusion360 and CAD, which have been using generative ai for many years to do the fine detail work that goes into things like electronics, manufacturing and so on?

mothicalmoo.bsky.social•92 days ago

If it is trained on stolen work. I am talking about generative AI images here, yes.

From what it sounds like you're talking about, that sounds like manufacturing and is NOT trained on stolen work and has huge negative impacts to both the environment and such.

My issue is with Twitch CHOOSING to

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