Microsoft announced in a blog post that it is shuttering its Clip Art library in favor of Bing Images, where users can now download royalty free images to use in their projects.

Back in the ‘90s, Clip Art took over Word and PowerPoint files thanks to the thousands of office workers and students who used the images as a way to "improve" their documents.

Culture; April 4, 2023; Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art We used to scoff at it, but in an age of relentless commodification, it now seems like a democratizing ...

As this happened, clip-art makers began emphasizing quantity over quality. Even T/Maker, which built its business on sales of small, high-quality clip-art packages, entered the volume clip-art market.

Microsoft quietly bid farewell to its “Clip Art” image library Tuesday, acknowledging that Word or PowerPoint users can find generic images of bunnies, money bags or cherry bombs through ...

Just like clip art. Microsoft is bringing AI-generated art to its Office suite, with new apps and features that leverage OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E. Skip to main content ...