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Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service (www.techspot.com)
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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I usually use the "cuss at the bot" method. Gets out my frustration ahead of time so i can be sweet with the human. Tho one time the computer hung up on my ass haha

[–] Voroxpete 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also surprisingly effective.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 8 points 4 months ago

Yup, it turns out you'll often get more concessions from a support agent if you can manage to sound both angry at the problem and happy to work with the customer support rep to resolve it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Might not have been speech detection, might have been a call center agent with a sound board

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Tha poor fucker..."I wanna talk to a human"..."you are beep boop"

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sound board? I don't know what that means. Can they press buttons and computer vooice prompts pop up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah or something similar.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh. Well i hope i didn't yell at a person. Nothing for it now