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Mexicola1976 40 points ago +48 / -8

You were chatting with a bot.

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dukiehazzard 48 points ago +48 / -0

it definitely wasn't. The initial response was very personalized. They had to go get someone. They've sent me messages before. It's not a bot.

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Mexicola1976 13 points ago +24 / -11

The AI is really advanced. Do you think you're the first person who has asked the question you asked? I was in the banking industry/customer service/account management. You were chatting with a bot.

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booga 28 points ago +31 / -3

Bots don't take 10 minutes to respond fyi.

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bitchlasagna 15 points ago +16 / -1

Bots have actually been made to reply slower because responding quickly gives them away, now I've not heard of 10 minute delays, but 5-30 seconds has been observed.

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Mexicola1976 2 points ago +3 / -1

Ok.

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dukiehazzard 11 points ago +12 / -1

lol whatever makes you feel good, but maybe read the email posted here? It provides a recommendation as to how representatives should respond to the question in the chat...

Anyway, if it was a bot with "really advanced" AI, I don't think it would have given such intentionally vague and evasive responses. That would be pretty worthless AI.

Also, yes, I was probably one of the first to ask the question I did.

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FarmerPepe 14 points ago +15 / -1

No. Bots don't take 10 minute to reply. That's literally the entire point of using a bot - prompt communication with the customer.

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HiddenDekuScrub 6 points ago +7 / -1

No, that was a human. Most call centers permit you to "end the call" if somebody says something to trap you, can't be given a satisfying answer, and you can't do anything about it.

Railing against the minions won't help anything. Then again, I can't tell you who to complain at. That is the catch, isn't it? Leaving in droves is really the only option, but sheesh, I almost never run into customers with a discover card.

I don't use Discover myself, but yeah, most of the payment processors pull stuff like this. VISA, to their credit, tries to stay out of these issues, but they strike me as wanting to also flee at first chance given.

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christianknight 2 points ago +2 / -0

We are all slaves to the bankers now...