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Clippy jokes resurface amid the AI boom
Original: # humor # clippy # ai # technology # microsoft
Microsoft's old animated assistant Clippy is back in jokes online, with people drawing comparisons between the famously annoying paperclip and today's AI chatbots. The humor highlights how attitudes toward clunky virtual assistants have shifted now that conversational AI is everywhere, and some wonder whether Clippy was simply ahead of its time.
Why now: The wave of AI assistants has reminded people of Microsoft's Clippy, prompting nostalgic jokes.
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