I'm seeing a lot of it on the internet recently.

People were also starting to equate LLMs to the MS Office's Clippy. But somebody made a popular video showing that no, Clippy was so much better than LLMs in a variety or way, and people seem to have stopped.

"Clippy just wanted to help."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ

And before Clippy we had Microsoft BoB! Super popular as I recall...