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exe34yesterday at 8:06 AM1 replyview on HN

> this is all still frontier days of AI

That's why it annoys me how much effort they put into not talking to me, when it's clear that their machine cannot solve my problem.


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yurishimoyesterday at 10:33 AM

They don’t care about you. You are a number on a screen that happens to pay their company money sometimes. But by using recorded voices, the company hopes to tap into the empathetic part of your human brain to subconsciously make excuses for their crappy service.

When I get stellar customer service these days, I’m happy and try to call it out, but i don’t expect it anymore. My first expectation is always AI slop or a shitty phone tree. When I reframed it for myself, it was a lot easier not to get frustrated about something that I can’t control and not blame a person who doesn’t exist.

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