"Operator" in the AI age
"Operator" in the AI age
I just say “Blarghadruthcejb”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t understand”
“Garfsgjoze5hvsjk”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t understand”
“Teahjkutsjmxaum”
“I’m sorry we’re having such difficulty understanding each other. Please hold for the next representitive. Calls are handled in the order they were recieved. Your estimated wait time is…84 days”
we’re having such difficulty understanding each other.
Actually, it’s just you, buddy.
How often does this come up for you?
These days? Literally every time I have to contact any business’s customer support for any reason.
Luckily, though, I don’t have to do that very often.
I’m so pissed that EVERYONE has added a fucking AI Chatbot to EVERY PAGE ON THE INTERNET.
Some of them automatically expand and ask if they can help.
And I love them for that.
I think it’s mostly internal agentic AI that has the power to change stuff. I’m not aware of any company that has a customer facing one, mainly because if there was they would be bankrupt by now from someone tricking it into “refunding” their entire liquid cash or deleting every database it can touch or something.
The phone AI will hang up on you over and over again. And it’s not an accidental disconnection because they will say they are sorry you are having problems and then say goodbye and then hang up.
Verizon set up this doom loop where I was prevented from logging into my account online and then when I called for help the AI hung up on me because I wasn’t logged into my account. I told the AI the reason I was calling was because the system wouldn’t let me log in and asked to speak to a human representative but they just kept disconnecting.
Corporate phone queues are being run straight out of hell.

Please let me talk to someone with a meat body
paging c/[email protected]
Good Lord, you people will bitch about anything.
If this challenge God has sent you is the most difficult trail you encounter, you’ve had a fantastic day.
Your hot air?
I posted not because it’s a “challenge”, but because it was a funny way to show distaste for AI