Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoClippy (actual name Clippit), was an avatar for the Office Assistant User Interface introduced in Office 97. It read the contents of your documents and would pop up and give you advice, and was basically an attempt at an intelligent agent, but 30 years ago.
It wasn’t nearly as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit, but that’s largely because the tech to be as sophisticated and invasive as the current bullshit didn’t exist in 1997.
vivi@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
He also says in the video that clippy didn’t read your letter. It did–that’s how it could detect that you were writing one.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Exactly. That was captured in one of Clippy’s most famous lines.
“I see you’re trying to write a letter. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a résumé. Can I help?”
This of course got parodied a million times:
“I see you’re trying to write a radical manifesto. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a suicide note. Can I help?”