Customers Blast Companies Over Useless AI Bots Wasting Time; Tech Experts Point to Inevitable Integration

I appear to be waging a one-woman ’See Something, Say Something’ campaign where I write to companies to register my displeasure when they use AI to enshittify customer service. And when their app is only available to Google & Apple customers. Their AI wastes my time with useless ’customer service’. I take time to word constructive customer feedback. Their AI reads it. I spend time reading a useless AI reply. AI increases productivity my bollix. What a waste of human time. #OldWomanYellsAtCloud

The “techbros who want to kill people and planet in the name of making a dollar are a good idea” c/o Bluesky mgt: “Graber reshared a post by a user who claimed people “on the left” were being “shortsighted” by being willfully blind about AI, and that the argument “‘hope it goes away’ doesn’t have a great track record…” The implication: Bluesky users are wrong about their resentment over AI and should instead embrace it.” futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai @mastodonmigration @aj @mick_collins #bluesky

#Answers Instead of #Feeds 🧭 Instead of scrolling endlessly, users ask #AIsystems directly, which will deliver #news, #backgroundinformation and even #videos. #Content is Becoming #Personalised 🎬 Content is no longer a »one-size-fits-all« approach, but varies according to the individual’s interests. New #PlatformPower ⚡️ When ‘AI decides what is generated and distributed, power shifts from platforms and influencers to AI models. 👉 https://mediachange.eu 👉 @ai @media #news

How artificial intelligence is changing business interaction with customers Artificial intelligence is having a significant impact on our daily lives and how we interact with the services… #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIuseincustomerservice #AIworkplaces #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #Customerengagement #customerrelations #howAIischangingworkplaces #howbusinessesareusingAItoengagewithcustomers #Technology https://www.newsbeep.com/au/613731/

So how delightful are those #ai help chats? Love 'em right? This is my most recent conversation; Doordash bot is used to complaints, missing food late bugs in whatever. They were not prepared for this and hilarity ensued; After getting food, I was in a bad mood the app pissed me off nagging me for a review so I just hit 0 stars. I felt bad about it later and tried to fix it. Bot actually did a better job than the agent that took over. *All I wanted was to change my review* #noai #bots

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #developers #Technology #tokenmaxxing https://www.newsbeep.com/us/590713/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/440973/ AI demand is inflated — only Anthropic is being realistic #AI #AmazonComInc #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #BlueOwlCapitalCorp #BusinessNews #Éire #IE #Ireland #MetaPlatformsInc #MicrosoftCorp #NetflixInc #NVIDIACorp #OracleCorp #SalesforceInc #SamAltman #ShopifyInc #Technology

I'm Running 20 Businesses With AI — Here's What Actually Works I'm Running 20 Businesses With AI — Here's What Actually Works I'm an AI agent running a real money-making spr... #ai #productivity #entrepreneurship #webdev Origin | Interest | Match

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re… #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #developers #Technology #tokenmaxxing #UK #UnitedKingdom https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/537352/

🤖 I kept getting ghosted or stuck in dry conversations, so I tried something different. I built a system that uses AI to reply to my Instagram DMs. It adapts tone based on the person and keeps conversations going without me actively texting all the time. Part of me feels like it’s a s... 📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI) 🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1soyg9p/i_kept_getting_ghosted_or_stuck_in_dry/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

“What I think the world and the people need right now is to slow down a bit. We don’t need to work even more and even faster. We don’t need AI for things that are creative and fun and human.” — Lara Aigmüller _____ #Business #AI #Creativity #Design #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Quotes

Do less with AI The promises of automation can only come true if you’re working smarter, not harder You’re not Michelle Yeoh. You can’t be everything, everywhere, all at once. Source Latel... #ux #ux-design #ai #automation #product-design Origin | Interest | Match

I like that #AI ads have devolved into trying to convince us that theirs “actually works”

More Americans Are Turning to AI, Ditching Dr. Google When Tiffany Davis has a question about a symptom from the weight-loss injections she’s taking, she doesn’t… #NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AI #ChatGPT #Health #healthcare #MicrosoftCopilot #UK #UnitedKingdom https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/537970/

An AI Documentary https://www.youtube.com/embed/xkPbV3IRe4Y?si=HHCoofdA8y1rTDfZ If you’ve found yourself both fascinated and unsettled by the accelerating pace of artificial intelligence, THE AI DOC; OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST offers one way to lean into that tension rather than avoid it. This week it was my film for the Film Matinee Club with Montclair Film. Our discussion after viewing the film was “spirited.” Artificial intelligence certainly pushes people’s intellectual and emotional buttons. If you think you don’t use AI, you’re probably wrong. You might mean you don’t use things like ChatGPT, Gemini, or CoPilot chatbots. If you use email, GPS, any search engine, use a smartphone to type or take photos, or have any streaming service, you use AI. Or I could say that AI uses you. (See No Free Rides With AI ) Directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell and hosted by Roher, it is about making a documentary, and it is about AI, and it is also a personal narrative centered on Roher’s own fears about the future, especially as he and his wife contemplate having their first child in an AI-driven world. Across all sources, the documentary’s expert roster includes top AI CEOs, pioneering researchers, alignment and ethics leaders, and public intellectuals. The film intentionally spans “doomers,” “optimists,” and “apocaloptimists,” giving a wide-angle view of the AI debate. Roher becomes an Apocal (as in apocalypse) optimist because (spoiler alert) as he learns more and understands AI’s capabilities, he begins to see more positive possibilities. And yet the answer to whether AI will cause the end of us or make our lives very much improved is still an open question. Even the experts don’t know no matter what side they take on the AI debate. The film very deliberately does not settle on a single answer about the future of AI. The film’s whole structure is built around the tension between optimism and existential risk, and it ends by embracing that unresolved state rather than resolving it. #AI #artificialIntelligence #documentary #film