(A shortened version of an annoying phonecal I’ve had)

Customer: I’m going to send you a picture, do you know which brand/model of product this is?

Me: no sir, we’ve never seen this one.

Customer: please look it up, I need to know if it needs part X.

(Searching online, through catalogues, asking around, nothing. So we call him back with that news.)

Customer: oh but I just put it into google and it found the type and it also says it needs part X.

Me: ok, be sure verify it. You know, you can’t trust ai.

Customer: yeah sure.

Next day customer walks in, orders some unrelated stuff, not a single word about the phonecalls from the day before. Not a single word.

And I bump into this more and more, people that use ai to look up stuff and then smugly act like they somehow beat the system. As if they did the great rebellious act that paves the way forward. No you schmuck, you gave into the system and now it’s biting you up the ass.

(Edit for clarity)

  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.spaceOP
    144·
    17 days ago
    1. It’s about an annoying interaction with a customer that I’ve had.
    2. I’m sorry you feel that way and hope it’s not an actual medical situation. I’ll try and clean up the format.
    3. It’s mostly a conversation where it represents 2 parties discussing products. It also has a little narration (you’ll note that those particular parts lack an indication of who is talking).
    4. I’m annoyed at people who use ai like it’s the best thing ever despite it being wrong most of the time (and that’s just the tip of that iceberg). This type of post is more commonly known as a rant.
    5. The image is a shrugging man popularised through memes. Initially I didn’t feel like posting an image but this instance required me to do so, and this is the first best thing I could find.
    6. I’m no expert on the matter but afaik some colours read as transparent to some display drivers. It’s a graphical effect if you will.

    That’s some great criticism, would you like me to generate more responses to this?

    • Liana@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      I was wondering what issue they were having until I read your comment. If it was a wall of text, I’d have passed on reading it. You did well in clearing it up!