I don't think any company that uses AI or scrapes data gives two shits what your avatar is. It's the equivalent of changing your twitter profile to show support for the victims of something, and then carrying on as usual.

Microsoft would kill for Clippy to be remembered as a friend. Because that just sanewashes their history as a company when clippy was a thing. Yes, please ignore the anti-trust busting in Congress. Please ignore how we made computers worse for the end user by restricting what you can do on your purchased computer.

"Clippy was your friend. Clippy didn't want to steal your data. Clippy just wanted to help."

Help infantize the masses with "It looks like you're writing a document, do you want help with that? Yes, or maybe later?"

This entire clippy thing is just basically free whitewashing and advertising for Microsoft, one of the biggest players in the reasons why people use the avatar.

At least invent something new, if it's about protecting artists, instead of copying a jpg from a 90s corporate milquetoast mascot.

[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think any company that uses AI or scrapes data gives two shits what your avatar is.

Didn't Rossmann say the whole point of changing your profile to clippy was to show everyone participating how many people would be willing to actually fight for consumer rights?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So instead of fighting it they changed their profile picture. Might as well post "Down for this sort of thing, I hereby declare Facebook can't steal my posts" and then never actually do anything to help stop it.

[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

So I suppose you never watched his follow-up video?