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Posted by haute_cuisine 1 day ago

Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated features

I was investigating some bug with our voice system and asked support where I can find some debugging information and event logs.

They told me where I should go in the interface to see that and reassured that they checked logs and this event exist.

It turned out these features and information doesn't exist anywhere in the interface and impossible to retrieve in any way. The support message with hallucinated features is mostly AI written.

CEOs tell us AGI is around the corner but in reality it just unreliable information and AI can't even restock the vending machine.

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elicash 1 day ago|
What distinguishes AI slop customer support from the previous enshittification of customer service is that previously if you wanted to avoid the garbage chat support you could get on the phone and -- even if you had to go through a phone tree -- you could at least eventually ask a person about the problem.

But now, even if it's possible to get a person on the phone, THAT PERSON is just doing the AI chatbot on their end. By talking to a human, you're just adding a middleman who is accessing the same incorrect chatbot that's available to you.

lab14 1 day ago||
"Hallucination machine, responds with hallucinations".

But seriously, entreprise customers (and any big spender account) usually get access to a dedicated (human) account rep and private support channels in Slack, so they never really interact with this.

mikeandrees9921 1 day ago|
Yeah true. Abstraction reigns king lol
gooseWithFood20 1 day ago||
This happened to me with a chat it for Chevrolet lmao. Started telling me about a car that DID NOT EXIST
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