• Murse@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      …tbh, if the standard we’re holding it to is that it’s only gotta be better than the majority of human politicians, then we could have passed the torch to “AI” back in the 90s and just let Clippy run the country.

      This comment is made in full acknowledgment that Clippy was shit. But compared to like Trump or one of his mini-Nazis? Yeah I’d vote Clippy in a heartbeat.

      Same applies to the modernized steaming pile of excrement we’re calling “AI”. I’d trust ChatGPT with running our country over the current administration any day.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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        Clippy gets a lot more crap than they should. I think people forget that Office 97 was many people’s first time using a graphical word processor and for some their first time using a mouse. Those who bought machines just a couple years prior when Word first came to Windows weren’t ready to upgrade yet. So those who had some experience usually had it in older DOS based programs where mouse support was hit and miss, but most were coming from typewriters or nothing at all. Clippy was actually pretty good a bouncing around the screen and showing people what to click on to do things or even just walking people through the things they could do.