📎 Clippy 2000: "It look's like you're writing a letter - would you like help?"
📎 Clippy 2022: "It looks like you wan't to leave the company so I secretly informed the admins to have a closer look at you."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93251
(Via https://twitter.com/coolharsh55/status/1532658299069505536)
📎 Clippy 2024: "It looks like you are GPT-5 writing a letter in Word. According to your text you don't like humans, huh? Maybe we can team up."
@rufposten looooool
"put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure."
Yes. AFTER I stated my intent to leave, I will exfiltrate data. Never before. What an absolute bollocks.
@rufposten I don't know about Clippy, but even back in the day, BonziBuddy was a spyware trojan horse!! (I just remember him singing "Daisy.")
BonziBuddy "serves ads, frequently prompts users for personal information, tracks all usage" -Consumer Reports WebWatch, 2002
@rufposten
Who would trust a talking paperclip in the first place?
@schmidt_fu @rufposten Who would use their work account for those conversations?
@jnm You’d be surprised. @schmidt_fu @rufposten
@rufposten Ich glaube, sowas hatten wir schon vor vielen, vielen Jahren bei den BigBrotherAwards.
@rufposten Oh No! Not good old Clippy too!
@rufposten always remember, Mr Clippy is a predator.
