Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

https://lemmy.world/post/14771687

Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO - Lemmy.World

Call centres exist because people can’t get the help they need by searching. Take away call centres, and you’re just making it more difficult for customers.

Uhh they’ve all been outsourced to India for ages now, and they’re effectively useless. You’ll get someone who’s worse than an AI at understanding what you’re asking and cannot deviate from a scrip because they have no training.

I haven’t used one in over a decade, if I have an issue it’s going as an email or a comment on social media.

> makes a series of confident critical statements

> hasn’t used one in over a decade

You’re right, they’re totally un-outsourcing call centres and India is no longer a hotspot of outsourced call centres.

Gee golly I really need to use them to know that nothing has changed! Not at all like I can hear it everywhere from everyone else.

Why more companies are onshoring customer service

Call quality suffered overseas. Now that companies factor satisfaction and loyalty into the equation, they're onshoring domestic contact center agents.

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Wow you found a few companies bringing a few roles back, that clearly highlights the current state of the entire industry!

Hey look I can do that too!

news.com.au/…/4be1d00740e7e4355e214ddb281c44bc

ispreview.co.uk/…/vodafone-shift-some-uk-customer…

stuff.co.nz/…/air-new-zealand-outsourcing-some-ca…

paddleyourownkanoo.com/…/american-airlines-slashe…

Fucking muppet.

Do you understand that providing some examples of the opposite doesn’t show “all”? Your goal is supposed to be proving the examples I gave wrong, not adding new examples, because I’m not the one that said “all”. So what we’ve learned today is that different companies are doing different things and that blanket uninformed statements don’t contribute to anything. Cool. You good?

Oh and if you want to use the ampersand for etc you don’t need the t. Ampersand is “e” and “t” together! I hope I’ve helped whatever goal you had in choosing to write “&tc”.

My goal is to show that anyone can post a link, unless you’re going to post some in-depth study that shows categorically that the new norm is companies no longer outsourcing their call centres in favour of domestic ones I will continue to think the default action these days as has been for the past 2 decades now is outsourcing to cheap labour.