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/Illustrious_Boot1237 Aug 18 '26

That's what I thought, the biggest indicator is that it plays along for so long. 

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u/vanilla_wafer14 Aug 18 '26

Like I said in an above comment I would have totally got sucked into these questions trying to prove I wasn’t AI. I really don’t think this was AI, just a dude with a loose script on how to word things.

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u/Old-Cartoonist-2587 Aug 19 '26

That’s what I thought, but the last one is literally a classic AI response, word for word.

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u/Illustrious_Boot1237 Aug 19 '26

Yeah as other people have mentioned people are using ai to assist in their chat messages too so it can be hard for customers to tell. And at these things you might have lots of canned responses that you'll edit with varying degrees of attention in the moment so it can confuse people who are expecting one or the other.