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@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ have you heard the tale of Clippy?
Way back, some cutting-edge psychological research was done that demonstrated people anthropomorphize their computers, and hate them like they would hate a person.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20180313075429/https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/95/950106Arc5423.html or https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video4080 ?] But then the great mistake was made, which was: well if people react to computers as though they're people, we have to put the faces of people on computers. Which in my opinion is exactly the incorrect reaction. If people are going to react to computers as though they're humans, the one thing you don't have to do is anthropomorphize them, because they're already using that part of the brain. Clippy was a program based on the research that Nass and Reeves did, and it was a tragic misinterpretation of their work."
So some cufflink-wearing motherfucker said "great, people will emotionally connect with their computer more favorably if we anthropomorphize it."
[https://xkcd.com/2615/]
Now you start up your word processor and it jumps in the way to say hi and chat about how it can interfere.
Fortunately, clippy was killed off pretty quickly. As long as people are projecting a personality onto their computer, we hated clippy as intensely as we'd hate any other pest. And of course there are some people who felt the opposite. I'll leave a link in the show notes to an erotic fan fiction starring clippy that you can actually buy.
[https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Leonard-Delaney-ebook/dp/B00UJ01WBW]
@ -95,21 +96,6 @@ Remember how they tripped over their own dick right out of the gate by starting
hah, good times.
Recently they're preparing to roll it out again, this time assuring us it's opt-in-only. Given their track record of "accidentally" forgetting that a user didn't opt in, I don't think anyone's going to be surprised when they forget again.
### Ulla is a token hire
indulge me one last tangent to complain about AI.
openweathermap.org has a chatbot.
[annoyed. Push more air from the diaphragm, a bit louder, but not shouting quite yet]
FUCKING... WHY?
[again at the more annoyed tone, volume back down]
so that I can look past the weather forecast to ask it to tell me? If anyone wants to have a conversation, it's with a person. And the reason to talk to a person rather than use your technology is that your technology doesn't work; the answer to that problem is not more, newer, less working technology!
[reset tone. Open minded:]
...let's try it.
[ulla] "i don't provide the weather, only help with the documentation"
[full-throated, ideally on the other side of the room. I may add in background noise of stuff being thrown around]
THE PERFUNCTORY CHATBOT ON THE WEATHER SITE DOESN'T EVEN TELL YOU THE GOD. DAMNED. WEATHER!!!
[filthy frank] It's time to stop!
## Work with the user
[add to rules list]