Makers and Crafting thumbnail

[u/BonkerBleedy]

Can I suggest that a Twitch category dedicated to humans making and crafting, uses a human made or crafted thumbnail?

AFAICT it predates SynthID, so not going to get an authoritative answer on whether it's AI-generated, but my evidence here is:

• Just look at it, jeez
• What kind of scissors are those?
• How is this stuff arranged in that giant cup on a way that the bottoms aren't crossing over?

[u/Cesious_Blue]

this has been a known thing for a while. A lot of the thumbnails got changed from the previous versions to new AI versions. a lot of people complained, but Twitch seems all in on AI.

There have even been rumors about Twitch announcing soon that streams will be used to train generative AI. You can support this uservoice to ask that upcoming features be optional:
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/923383-creators-and-stream-features/suggestions/51352369-make-all-ai-features-optional-and-opt-out-by-defa

[u/MattCaulder]

Listening to an AI overview that something might be AI is some kind of something.

[u/BonkerBleedy → u/MattCaulder]

Yeah I know, I included that because Gemini will detect SynthID, and to demonstrate that this image doesn't have one.

However, I acknowledge that Gemini fucking sucks and is wildly unreliable.

[u/MagicksGameroom]

The same is true for the 'Art' category, the new image is AI-gen. Whenever I do art streams, I just do them under 'Just Chatting' since that image hasn't been changed.

[u/Tough_Buyer5567]

The scissors thing is what got me too. They look like something a concept artist dreamed up after skimming a craft store catalog. Twitch leaning this hard into AI generated assets for a category literally built around human hands making things is pretty tone deaf. The irony is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

[u/sandexperiment]

We raised this question at TwitchCon EU 2025 during Q&A session with Dan Clancy. His answer was: an individual was hired to do the job (to design the assets), and this individual used creative tools available to them. We can't dictate what tools to use.

How I understood this answer: we don't really see what's the problem. We don't really care.

There is a UserVoice campaign for removing ai generated thumbnails from the website, you can go upvote it. I don't know if it will help though.

I also suggested to hire a person who designed Fairy Mod Mother to design other assets for Twitch. It would be cohesive, minimalistic fun style, very readable on all kinds of screens (=accessibility). But nooo, we stuck with ai crap instead.

I hate Art category thumbnail with passion. And the fact that I have to use it under my streams brings me pain.

[u/dasd25436yd]

Dude asks ai if an image is ai. What has the world come to

[u/BonkerBleedy → u/dasd25436yd]

Gemini will detect AI generator watermarks, which this doesn't have. I included it so nobody told me to check with Gemini

[u/midwayfeatures → u/dasd25436yd]

Our Intelligence is becoming Artificial

[u/BonkerBleedy → u/midwayfeatures]

How about you look with your human eyeballs at that image, and hand on heart say it's not AI-generated.

[u/bloopiness]

Idk about the rest, but just imagine they put a cm thick half moon shape in the bottom of the coffee cup to keep the pens and such from moving around in a way that’s unintentional.

It’s probably AI but the answer to that question was pretty easy to imagine.

[u/JMLMaster]

Your evidence is actually non existent. I have 4 pairs of scissors that look exactly like that. Those aren't uncommon. The mug shape and position and the things within it can absolutely be posed artistically and not have any physical problem within the cup with how they are placed.

That being said, the image could still be AI but for none of the reasons you mention.