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Just a little AI resistance, as a treat

The anecdote highlights growing consumer frustration with automated AI customer service responses and the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between human and machine communication.

A blogger recounts receiving an apparently AI-generated customer service reply from British online supermarket Ocado after submitting a detailed technical bug report. After giving a low rating on a satisfaction survey to protest the automated response, the author received a follow-up apology claiming to be from a human, though commenters debate whether the second reply was also AI-generated.

  • Ocado
  • Kate Devlin

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