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> imagine an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over. That's already the case on a lot of calls. In particular, the systems that are co
by apaprocki 4y ago
> imagine an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over.
That's already the case on a lot of calls. In particular, the systems that are configured to not hand you over to a human no matter what unless the system itself detects there is an error in its handling of the situation. I've just defaulted for some time now to saying the word "gibberish" when prompted, and usually that gets you connected directly to a human after no more than 3 times saying it because the system believes that it can't understand you. You can not ask the system to please do that for you no matter how you phrase the question because it was designed specifically to stop you from reaching a human.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago"Gibberish"? That's smart. I just blow raspberries down the phone until it says "I'll put you through to an assistant". But sometimes it thinks it found some signal in the noise and it will say things like "is this about your credit card? Please say yes or no".