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Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of "Clippy" and it's just as helpful as the original.

If you're unfamiliar with the abomination, it's a dumber version of Copilot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

And somehow infinitely less charming

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

If they make it look like a paperclip and almost as useful I'd consider it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Oh, I'm somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.

Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.

Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, clippy was supposed to be helpful?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, "Microsoft helpful", not actually helpful.