ML author slams OpenAI's pop-up as "Clippy's bastard brother" after closing it 5 times
burkov · x · 2026-09-08
- Andriy Burkov, author of The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, publicly complained that a ChatGPT pop-up kept reappearing after he closed it five times in one day, calling it "Clippy's annoying bastard brother" and tagging @OpenAI—a nod to Microsoft's infamous Office assistant backlash.
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