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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    9 months ago

    I actually believe it.

    Customer support for cheap companies is someone in a call center in India or some other country with obscenely low wages, following a bad flow chart with limited access and less autonomy. To match it you basically just need the LLM to parse the interaction into following the flowchart, and even when it struggles to do so, you’re comparing it to a minimum wage, probably uneducated, worker in a non-English speaking country.

    The bar is wildly low.

    • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      So “customer service” (the bastard child of huge companies and low wages) is actually just a really bad product to start with, and now Klarna has just replaced it with something that functions just as bad? Yeah I think that makes sense.