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The ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
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[–] inari@piefed.zip 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I think they're used so agents can make changes to Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. It seems to be using the headless version of LibreOffice.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yeah… I didn't want to include 430MB of bloat in my bundle to each end user though for one feature, so I did it the hard way instead: Manually editing document files using XPATH. Maybe I'm too old school, if everyone's shipping 1GB+ apps like it's nothing nowadays.