Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile Clippy is homeless and living in LA’s skid row. He’s all rusty now.

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  • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would be a nice plot for a game

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why hire marginalized folks when you can just make some up that you dont have to pay? This shit is distopian

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We are staying super curious about what is on the horizon”

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  is it the name you enter at the start of the meeting because im officially going to be called daddy now.

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What if it goes the way of facebook, and one day you realize that it’s just you in a virtual space filled with bots.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the current trajectory for corporate internet in general.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Making bloody Clippy the Copilot avatar would be less of a blunder - the uncanny valley is real, and it causes instinctual repulse.

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To Microsoft's credit(?), do offer clippy as an option according to the video in the OP article

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even then. I bet the first thing you see is those portraits in a weird mix of corporate “art” and realistic style.

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