Making bloody Clippy the Copilot avatar would be less of a blunder - the uncanny valley is real, and it causes instinctual repulse.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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To Microsoft's credit(?), they do offer clippy as an option according to the video in the OP article
Even then. I bet the first thing you see is those portraits in a weird mix of corporate "art" and realistic style.
Meanwhile Clippy is homeless and living in LA's skid row. He's all rusty now.
Would be a nice plot for a game
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.
That's the current trajectory for corporate internet in general.
"We are staying super curious about what is on the horizon"
is it the name you enter at the start of the meeting because im officially going to be called daddy now.
Why hire marginalized folks when you can just make some up that you dont have to pay? This shit is distopian