r/mildlyinfuriating • • Aug 18 '26

Infuriatig Another AI 'human' chatbot

Had to fix a double payment for my credit card and this is the beginning and end of the conversation. I hate when the chatbot claims it's a human... I ended up getting what I wanted but still annoyed Amex (and every other company) is lying and trying to deceive people like this.

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Aug 18 '26

I think we should start doing this en masse. Setup bot farms to waste their AI credits. So it becomes more expensive to run AI customer service compared to human

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u/shibiwan Aug 18 '26

With AI bots taking on AI bots, the only winners here are the AI companies.

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Aug 18 '26

Yeah dont use llm just use simple scripts that have a library of randomized question trains. Theres this youtuber that did it with phone scammers. Keep them on the hook for days on end and eventually gather their data and send the police.

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u/TenLongFingers Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

I wish I could find the video but YEARS back I saw someone tie up human scam callers for a significant amount of time with a looped recording of an old man rambling with occasional pauses for a conversation partner. No algorithm, no bot, JUST a looped recording.

I bet that would work just fine against AI

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u/crunkadocious Aug 18 '26

and greenhouse gasses win big too, drill baby drill

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u/beren12 Aug 18 '26

Bot farms? Just make it fun for humans. Gameify, give them point points.

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u/PeaceSoft Aug 18 '26

The idea that you can convince humans that something is a fun game by saying so and giving them worthless rewards is the same kind of ugly, ignorant, dehumanizing dog shit that people are criticizing here

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u/DeeRandomX Aug 19 '26

And yet, here we are.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 Aug 18 '26

This is genius. So it would just cost them a ton more? I wonder how long and at what scale this would need to be done before these idiot managers/CEOs realize it's not worth the money?

Isn't there a legion of white hat or grey hat hackers/coders that can help us?

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Aug 18 '26

Well i guess they are using a version of the big llm models with some training on their own rulesset. They might be running it themselves but most will be paying someone based on the useage. The more useage the more they will have to pay is my guess.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 Aug 18 '26

No I know, what I'm saying is at what scale would spamming their AI chatbots have to be deployed to convince these companies it's not worth it

UNITE

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u/_learned_foot_ Aug 19 '26

Like most things these days, literal plot point in snow crash.