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This is a community where you can poke fun at nasty software. This community is your go-to destination to look at the most cringe-worthy and facepalm-inducing moments of software gone wrong. Whether it's a user interface that defies all logic, a crash that leaves you in disbelief, silly bugs or glitches that make you go crazy, or an error message that feels like it was written by an unpaid intern, this is the place to see them all!

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    • Posts that contain any AI-related content as the main focus (for example: AI “hallucinations”, repeated words or phrases, different than expected responses, etc.) will be removed. (polled)


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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 205 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate apps that are basically just a form but they try to force a chat interface onto you.

Chase business and credit card accounts : oh you want to access your account from a device you have not used OR while using a VPN?

Give us all the information from your account and social security number to connect you to a guy who will ask the same things to give you a code. Absolute embarrassment of an operational process.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

My state’s DMV switched their online services to this. Want to change your address? You must talk to the chatbot. Renewing your license? Tell the chatbot your credit card information. And for this convenience you also get to pay a fee to the third-party company that operates the service for the state.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I know North Carolina does this at the very least. I hate it

[–] Probius@sopuli.xyz 22 points 23 hours ago

We need to make it illegal to force people to use a chatbot. It's just a way to create the most frustrating experience possible without even having to pay an Indian call center. It's the new version of being put on hold for an hour and then getting transferred and put on hold for another hour, someone you can barely understand picking up the phone, and then hanging up on you after you explain what you want and making you call again.

The privatisation experiment continues

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You're giving me id.me flashbacks