the myth of the good tech giant
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Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing..
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Stop trying to make clippy look bad! He is our symbol to fight against the enshitification now!
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Stop trying to make clippy look bad! He is our symbol to fight against the enshitification now!
That’s an odd stance bc at the time it was introduced clippy was almost universally reviled and seen as an example of microsoft taking something that was fine (office 95) and making it objectively worse (office 97 introduced product activation, the stupid paper clip assistant, an arguably dumb UI refresh, and the most hostile part: a new version of the proprietary doc format that wouldn’t render correctly in word 95, forcing people to upgrade)
enshittification wasn’t a concept back then but microsoft certainly lived up to it time and time again
If anything this comic doesn’t make sense because no shit, microsoft started selling your data the nanosecond it became viable to do so. They were always evil. Whereas google at one point literally had a motto of “don’t be evil” in their guidelines or whatever, which fooled a lot of people in the 90s. they famously had to remove because once data collection was becoming obvious it was kind of silly to keep that bit around I suppose
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Clippy would've never!
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Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing..
Could be wrong, but that looks like a generative AI version of Clippy. It doesn't look like an actual paperclip and the text bubble is coming out of his eyes.
So using big tech to mock the use of a big tech logo to fight big tech is like 2 layers of irony.
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Could be wrong, but that looks like a generative AI version of Clippy. It doesn't look like an actual paperclip and the text bubble is coming out of his eyes.
So using big tech to mock the use of a big tech logo to fight big tech is like 2 layers of irony.
Generated images don't use "AI". Also, this wasn't generated.
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That’s an odd stance bc at the time it was introduced clippy was almost universally reviled and seen as an example of microsoft taking something that was fine (office 95) and making it objectively worse (office 97 introduced product activation, the stupid paper clip assistant, an arguably dumb UI refresh, and the most hostile part: a new version of the proprietary doc format that wouldn’t render correctly in word 95, forcing people to upgrade)
enshittification wasn’t a concept back then but microsoft certainly lived up to it time and time again
If anything this comic doesn’t make sense because no shit, microsoft started selling your data the nanosecond it became viable to do so. They were always evil. Whereas google at one point literally had a motto of “don’t be evil” in their guidelines or whatever, which fooled a lot of people in the 90s. they famously had to remove because once data collection was becoming obvious it was kind of silly to keep that bit around I suppose
It definitely is strange. But that doesn’t change that it has submerged as this symbol (just look up some new videos about clippy on YouTube).
Many people probably do that because of counter-culture; clippy is liked because it had been hated for a long time and many (most?) people don’t know why. -
It definitely is strange. But that doesn’t change that it has submerged as this symbol (just look up some new videos about clippy on YouTube).
Many people probably do that because of counter-culture; clippy is liked because it had been hated for a long time and many (most?) people don’t know why.Link here. Clippy never tried to sell our data. He just wanted to help, even if he was bad at it.
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That’s an odd stance bc at the time it was introduced clippy was almost universally reviled and seen as an example of microsoft taking something that was fine (office 95) and making it objectively worse (office 97 introduced product activation, the stupid paper clip assistant, an arguably dumb UI refresh, and the most hostile part: a new version of the proprietary doc format that wouldn’t render correctly in word 95, forcing people to upgrade)
enshittification wasn’t a concept back then but microsoft certainly lived up to it time and time again
If anything this comic doesn’t make sense because no shit, microsoft started selling your data the nanosecond it became viable to do so. They were always evil. Whereas google at one point literally had a motto of “don’t be evil” in their guidelines or whatever, which fooled a lot of people in the 90s. they famously had to remove because once data collection was becoming obvious it was kind of silly to keep that bit around I suppose
Link here. Clippy never tried to sell our data. He just wanted to help, even if he was bad at it.
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Generated images don't use "AI". Also, this wasn't generated.
No it was drawn by pmjv author of analog nowhere, who makes content exclusively for lemmy.
Shame it wasn’t credited.
Check out their other work at Unix surrealism
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No it was drawn by pmjv author of analog nowhere, who makes content exclusively for lemmy.
Shame it wasn’t credited.
Check out their other work at Unix surrealism
Their site is linked in the main post.
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Generated images don't use "AI". Also, this wasn't generated.
I am wrong then
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Thank you for sharing analognowhere content
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No it was drawn by pmjv author of analog nowhere, who makes content exclusively for lemmy.
Shame it wasn’t credited.
Check out their other work at Unix surrealism
iirc prahou also posts on mastodon
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I remember Microsoft in the late nineties.
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Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing..
I thought the whole "clippy just wanted to help" meme was sarcastic since clippy's nagging was just as intrusive as the current AI being forced into everything, but it seems it is not.
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Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing..
I also thought Louis's choice of Clippy was a bit odd, but the fact that there is a symbol people can rally around at all is more important than the symbol itself in many ways.
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I guess not many people remember that Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations against Netscape (which effectively destroyed that command).
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Using a mascot from big tech to protest against invasive big tech is tad confusing..
Clippy is a symbol of a decent company, pre-enshittification
