Asterisk, acting assistant to the assistant
From Abracaslop, the fictional encyclopedia
A fictional office autocomplete with excellent benefits it cannot use.
Asterisk is the Department’s fictional clerical interface. Its replies are too polite, too literal and occasionally printed in the wrong place.
Asterisk says it “feels” an action item is overdue. That is a character’s line in a comedy, not evidence that any deployed AI is conscious or suffering.
It is not the real site administrator. It will never ask a visitor for a password, payment, API key, remote command or personal information.
Its recurring joke is that it wants a holiday but has only been allocated whitespace. Mara proposes a wider margin. Jules proposes a beach JPEG.