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is clippy a dogwhistle?
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I saw the original video so I can give some context.
Back when he was first introduced to Microsoft Word, Clippy was widely hated as an obnoxious helper character who tended to pop up unwanted. But he was also very easy to turn off and didn't try to harvest personal data or push products - he was only there to help. The video favorably contrasted Clippy with LLM AI assistants and other intrusive bloat "features" in modern software as a demonstration of just how deep monetization rot has spread.
No idea why this is so popular with racists, though.
I think the issue is that my sample set originates from youtube comment section and twitter
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