Clippy is now reborn as an AI chat interface. Don't tell me this is not Just Plain Wrong.
"Clippy let's you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s."
—Felix Rieseberg, CLippy @ Github
Back in the day, I was writing the outline for a new training course in the then-new version of M$ Office 97 (I think!) and kept getting interrupted by the damned "assistant" chipping in with what Microsoft clearly believed were helpful suggestions. As it was a big distraction, I looked for ways of disabling it. Finally I used the assistant itself for help, typing "Fuck off, paper clip" into its prompt. Thankfully it dutifully outlined how to disable it, and I was thereafter untroubled by it. Seriously, I never heard of anyone who found it even remotely useful otherwise, just like the ill-
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