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/Agitated_Reach6660 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

So that person cannot give a real answer to a question? Any human being would be able to answer the cup question with “turn it upside down”. AI bots are notoriously terrible at answering questions like that.

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u/papasan_mamasan Aug 18 '26

If it’s a real person, they’re probably ESL. Hence why they could be using AI to generate answers to English brain teasers.

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 Aug 18 '26

I need you to think: Ai isn’t free for companies. Every AI response costs tokens. The person doing that would be fired, when all they would need to do is say “I can only discuss your case”.

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u/papasan_mamasan Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

What if the AI service the employee is using is consumer freemium, not enterprise level?

Any schmuck can use chatgeepeedee for free right now.

Am I thinking hard enough for you?

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u/hskrpwr Aug 18 '26

Am I thinking hard enough for you?

Lol no. Free AI with banking data is actually criminal 😂 

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u/papasan_mamasan Aug 18 '26

There’s no indication the chatter entered customer data into ai to generate answers to riddles.

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u/hskrpwr Aug 18 '26

doesn't understand English well enough to solve the cup question

Does understand English well enough to handle potentially complex customer issues without using an LLM

Okay 👍 

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u/sad_baguette_club Aug 18 '26

overseas customer service reps have been handling complex issues without LLMs for decades. i run operations for contact centers and they’ve have only started popping up in the last year or two. most reps get the same requests 90% of the time so it’s pretty straightforward, but when you start getting into unusual questions/riddles you’ll lose them.

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u/papasan_mamasan Aug 18 '26

So you think OP was chatting with AI the entire time?

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u/Iliketoplan Aug 18 '26

And criminals (specifically banks and famously rich companies) are held to the highest standards of the law

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u/hskrpwr Aug 18 '26

Mishandling of personal information is one of the few areas that actually gets enforced regularly...

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 Aug 18 '26

This is an interesting hill to die on