Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot::Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
Ha, these fucking assholes. Glad to see they got forced to honor it. That’s what you get for jumping on bad tech in order to save a few bucks.
Hope other companies face the same liability if they rely on AI chatbots.
whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can you imagine the hellscape we’d be living on if precedent went the other way? Companies could just run every unsavory decision through some machine learning system and then wash their hands of it afterwards.
“Oh you were illegally fired? Sorry, that decision came from the Overmind, not from us.”
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Bad news: this is already happening: Subcontractors and labor law (not a machine, but separate-legal-entity excuse), “computer error” for fuck-ups, resellers and franchise models (yes, our name is on it, but you did not buy from us, you bought from this entity who is a dude in China or a bot in india, but totally not us)
foggy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good news: publicly traded companies will publicly ask their overlord AI about cost saving strategies. When it says “all of the C-suige execs can be fired, I can do their jobs” the shareholders will say “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” and finally the common man and the shareholder will have a common goal.
Liz@midwest.social 8 months ago
Yeah, and we really need to clamp down in this bullshit or it will continue to get worse.