I don't want to laugh at someone's real distress but this IS very funny ...

staceycornelius@zeroes.ca

@Natasha_Jay Really curious how important it is for this business to have a chatbot present during the overnight hours, especially taking orders instead of having a checkout/payment gateway like so many have been doing for... how many years?

Also, FAQs and contact forms yeah never mind someone gulped down the koolaid smh

ocean@raru.re

@Natasha_Jay You deserve every bit of this is you've given workers jobs to AI. Cost of business, I hope he loses in court and has to fulfill the order.

isol@mastodon.au

@Orb2069 @Natasha_Jay @gareth

In Australia, the key idea seems to be that an advertised price is "an invitation to treat", and the sale doesn't complete until the customer's offer to buy at that price is accepted by the vendor.
(IANAL)

https://legalvision.com.au/what-is-an-invitation-to-treat/

has examples, and the one with the incorrect price on the website seems close.

beecycling@wandering.shop

@Natasha_Jay Hah, I admire the patience of the customer working on that chatbot until he got that 80% discount.

An AI doesn't understand the concept that it's an undesirable outcome for the business to lose a bunch of money. A human would have hit a wall at a certain point in the negotiation, and not gone below that, *even without prior instructions about the biggest discount to offer.* An AI just has no judgement or understanding of that sort.

drangnon@hachyderm.io

@sgtpepere yeah that stood out to me @Natasha_Jay

crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange

@Natasha_Jay

This company was stupid enough to put a #sloperator in charge of the customer service.

Should be considered binding and legal. And for a company is just a 6000 GBP lesson.

And that judgement should be used ANYWHERE for any shit company that decides to use slop.

sellathechemist@mastodon.social

@RachelThornSub @Natasha_Jay "Rackets go up and vhere zey come down.Zat's not my department says Wernher von Braun".

budududuroiu@hachyderm.io

@Natasha_Jay not surprised, UK interest rates high, many businesses that can't raise capital through debt to fund themselves or their growth turn to AI as a cheap way of doing that

radio_alelopatia@kolektiva.social

@Natasha_Jay The fact that they still don't see AI as the issue is really disheartening. Like OK, don't remove the AI and deal with this over and over again then. If you're that stubborn about keeping something as stupid as AI, then you kind of deserve to get ripped off.

webhat@infosec.exchange

@Natasha_Jay nice, I hope the customer gets the 80% discount

groxx@hachyderm.io

@Natasha_Jay @gareth @Orb2069 it's definitely not black and white in USA, there's a significant amount of room for stuff like "no reasonable person would expect this to be true" and I kinda suspect "clearly tried to mislead support/chatbot" would fall in there too. it's kinda important to ensure clear bugs ($1000 of gold for $1!) don't bankrupt people instantly.

though I do REALLY want people to pay penalties for these bots' decisions, because it's the only way to reasonably push back (outside simply banning them).

ggmcbg@mstdn.plus

@Natasha_Jay

Business hours should be business hours again.
Anyone wants me between 6pm and when I get there next day can say 'thank you' after I've settled in and then ask.

smolbrain@floofy.tech

@Natasha_Jay I do!
Stop using AI chat bots silly people!

(Yes im aware its not always that easy. Life changes. But also we've been solving these problems for decades. Dont give in. And of course im not actually laughing at suffering)