There’s two different sorts of truthful—one is general reliability, so that you can trust any statement Clippy makes. That seems to be debunked.
On the other hand, if Clippy is lying or being seriously mistaken some of the time, it doesn’t affect the potential accuracy of the most interesting claims—that Clippy is an independent computer program and a paperclip maximizer.
There’s two different sorts of truthful—one is general reliability, so that you can trust any statement Clippy makes. That seems to be debunked.
On the other hand, if Clippy is lying or being seriously mistaken some of the time, it doesn’t affect the potential accuracy of the most interesting claims—that Clippy is an independent computer program and a paperclip maximizer.