alt Hacker NewsReally, none? Was Microsoft nefarious when they deployed Clippy? I feel like there is an incredibly obvious reason that is not nefarious at all: the average consumer likes cute things
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layer8 • yesterday at 6:13 PM
The average consumer doesn’t have a $100+ ChatGPT Pro subscription though.
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> Was Microsoft nefarious when they deployed Clippy?
Yes. It was predictive programming for getting (paper)clipped by AI.