'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?'

Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft.  In what appears to be a first for the 90s icon, Clippy has finally been made useful, ish, in the form of a small application that allows users to chat with a variety of AI models running locally, …

[Valeyard]

subscription model

anyone can bullshit their way through something, but it takes AI to do it with such authority and confidence, I aspire to that level of barefaced confident delivery when blagging

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: subscription model

AI has nothing on me, I'm a ... consultant

[Excused Boots]

Re: subscription model

Consultant, ah 'bullshitter de luxe’!

[b0llchit]

Maybe the best art and satire would be for it to ask you: Would you like me to uninstall myself? and then do so regardless the answer.

[JamesTGrant]

I initially read that as ‘would you like me to uninstall yourself, and then do it.’ Pretty dark…

I misread it as I was squinting because I was eating salty crisps and rubbed my eye - something an AI will never experience.

[Anonymous Coward]

With Clippy's xBot partnership, it will indeed be able to experience rubbing salty crisps in your eyes.

(and with Genuine People Personalities, it will enjoy it)

[Dan 55]

Abstraction

It's AIs all the way down.

[badinternetalways]

MY BOY IS BACK

[xyz]

Harrumph...

Clippy is not fiddling about with my box!

[Roland6]

“The Register is a UK-based website”…

Given how everyone is in aware of the capabilities of AI, we have to ask whether in this instance Clippy is being prophetic or is just out of date.

[EarthDog]

“It looks like you’re writing a su1c1de letter”

Clippy can help