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THE SHAPE MY FUCKING CAT IS MAKING RIGHT NOW?

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A tale of three customer service chatbots
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AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. Nowhere is that more true than in customer service:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/unmerchantable-substitute-goods/#customer-disservice
Customer service is a pure cost center for companies, and the best way to reduce customer service costs is to make customer service so terrible that people simply give up. For decades, companies have outsourced their customer service to overseas call centers with just that outcome in mind. Workers in overseas call centers are given a very narrow slice of authority to solve your problem, and are also punished if they solve too many problems or pass too many callers onto a higher tier of support that can solve the problem. They aren't there to solve the problem – they're there to take the blame for the problem. They're "accountability sinks":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine
It's worse than that, though. Call centers cheap out on long distance service, trading off call quality and reliability to save a few pennies. The fact that you can't hear the person on the other end of the line clearly, and that your call is randomly disconnected, sending you to the back of the hold queue? That's a feature, not a bug.
In a recent article for The Atlantic about his year-long quest to get Toyota to honor its warranty on his brand-new car, Chris Colin describes the suite of tactics that companies engage in to exhaust your patience so that you just go away and stop trying to get your refund, warranty exchange or credit, branding them "sludge":
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340/
Colin explores the historical antecedants for this malicious, sludgy compliance, including (hilariously) the notorious Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a US military guide designed for citizens in Nazi-occupied territories, detailing ways that they can seem to do their jobs while actually slowing everything down and ensuring nothing gets done:
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
In an interview with the 99 Percent Invisible podcast's Roman Mars, Colin talks about the factors that emboldened companies to switch from these maddening, useless, frustrating outsource call centers to chatbots:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/644-your-call-is-important-to-us/
Colin says that during the covid lockdowns, companies that had to shut down their call centers switched to chatbots of various types. After the lockdowns lifted, companies surveyed their customers to see how they felt about this switch and received a resounding, unambiguous, FUCK THAT NOISE. Colin says that companies' response was, "What I hear you saying is that you hate this, but you'll tolerate it."
Faetooth joins The Flenser for the release of their second album, Labyrinthine.
Listen to the new single “White Noise” now.
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Labyrinthine is Faetooth’s most emotionally immersive work yet—a heavy, winding album that confronts memory, grief, and tenderness without easy resolution. Out September 5th.
Photo by Jon Del Real, and album cover by Julia Jane Martens