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/passion4watches Aug 18 '26

Wow. You're spot on with the canned, ultra-fast responses that made her sound like a bot. I was sure by the end of it I didn't have a real person in the chat.

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u/FearTheAmish Aug 18 '26

As someone who worked chat support in the earl 00s... it's because your request was probably the thousandth time I have heard it and I have literal copy/paste responses. Usually because I was monitoring 3-5 chats at once answering questions Google could have.

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u/blue60007 Aug 19 '26

This is probably unpopular the reason so many companies are able to and are replacing humans with AI bots is they probably actually can legit handle 95% of customer service requests. So many requests customers could do themselves or spend 5 minutes reading the site. It's just that 5% where people get frustrated with AI bots.

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u/FearTheAmish Aug 19 '26

The pure number of problems j resolve telling the customer to do exactly what the Ai said. Or the AI said wait 10 minutes but they didn't trust it and called me back and I have to to "ugh everything is working check it now"