Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
by Loughla on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:11PM
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Can I not shop for other insurance companies? I specifically chose my provider because I know there's an office I can call to talk to my agent or his secretary. The moment I have to interact with a chatbot, I take my business to someone else.
Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
by gregates on Saturday April 11, 2026 @04:18PM
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I had a fun experience with my ISP where their chat bot couldn't help me (of course it couldn't, I don't call for "did you try turning it off and on again" problems), so it escalated me to a human agent. Said human agent was very obviously copy-pasting LLM output. I could tell because (1) the responses were nearly identical to what Claude already told me when I asked it before calling and (2) every once in a while I would get an uncharacteristically brief reply, without capitalization or punctuation, in Indian English.
I haven't a had a good experience since AT&T bought my previous ISP and forced me to switch to a different subsidiary.
Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Annoyances
by slumberlust on Sunday April 12, 2026 @09:56AM
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Just look at the difference between Amazon and Chewy support. One actively obfuscates how to talk/chat with a human; the other has someone knowledgeable pick up after one telephony prompt.
a fun side effect is that CS is also an early warning system for companies, so when you make it harder to get through to a human, you start throwing out info on your users' pain points. of course this only matters if people have a choice about whether to use your product, so that's gotta be an upside for insurance companies, etc.