Imagine Siri/Cortana, but 100x worse, constantly interrupting whatever you are doing. (For what it’s worth, I always disable these assistants the first thing too. But Clippy was worse.)
At least Clippy didn't rely all of your questions back to some server farm somewhere where those questions are used by whomever to build a online profile of you.
But it’s also generally useless.
Imagine Siri/Cortana, but 100x worse, constantly interrupting whatever you are doing. (For what it’s worth, I always disable these assistants the first thing too. But Clippy was worse.)