Caught a CT ad before the game last night. It had a completely unrealistic number of employees in a store. That's how I knew it was false advertising.
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Why do corporations imagine people will like this shit? Does anyone like this shit?
P.S. If you're the one that likes it, go away.
They donβt care if we like it. They care about reducing staff and cost
But they could do that without this:

Look at the pain in its eyes.
He waves like the guy who's trying to get your attention when you're purposely ignoring him.
Its about the pitch. How do you get your manager to spend money? Pretty pictures.
You know things are cooked when even the mascot looks AI generated
Just use our chatbot bro I promise it will get better, we simply need ten septillion gigabytes of your data to train it bro, it only hallucinates if you use it wrong, the amazon forest will just grow back over time, trust me bro
If I could actually trust that responses were well researched, correct and any answer it gives is honored I would love a lot LLM help desks. Give it a rough budget, what my needs are and such, and we can discuss pros and cons of each option. But arguably all AI's fail all three of those requirements and it's up to me to fact check.
Boomers love this shit.
Middle management blows their load over an employee that can't be sexually harassed and always tells you that you're right.
Maybe it's not about liking this shit, but more about hating it less than any real customer service that would (not) provide.
It's asking me for nudes what do I do?
Its asking me to stop sending nudes what do I do?
Hit the gym.
Iβve hit the gym several times and itβs about to collapseβ¦ what do I do now?
Park your cat car next to it and call insurance
Edit car*, not cat
Iβm sorry, you have to send them or the turnstiles wonβt let you into a Canadian Tire again.
Keep it tasteful, keep your panties on, but stuff them with Canadian Tire money
Show this to anyone not yet convinced we're in an AI bubble
This looks like literal corporate parody, like the Ficsit AI:

Or crowboy TLJ Dreamfall Chapters:

Or the 2077 vending machine, you know the one:

This is what happens when IT contracting companies sell their slop to upper management who has people deal with customer service for them.
One thing I recently learned: Canadian Tire stores are franchises. π€―
This doesnβt relate to AI directly but you can imagine a bunch of franchisees who know nothing about AI βwanting itβ.
That thing definitely has Badgey code in it
Do tell, what is badgey?
Jumping on the bandwagon are they. I don't see a problem if they use AI to assist with customer service. Spares the employees using their brain cells.
Hopefully the enshitification of CT isn't exorbitant.
The problem is when you need something specific from customer service. In other words most customer service calls.
As someone who's worked in IT I understand a lot of people are really stupid. Putting them on the phone with a system that recommends eating a few rocks each day will not improve the situation. Though it's probably nice if the person feels like screaming at you.
If "agent" gets you through to someone then all is good. When they make that impossible is the real issue.
I was tracking a package that for some reason went from BC to Ontario when I'm in Alberta, so I wanted to ask why but when I tried to connect to AJ agent the damn page fully reloaded and took me back to the beginning of starting a chat. You could never reach an agent, likely by design
I don't see a problem if they use AI to assist with customer service. Spares the employees using their brain cells.
Except we both know the corporate bean counters will use AI as an excuse to reduce the number of employees to as close to zero as they think they can get away with.
The best part is, this is so lazy the mascot is AI generated. 4 fingers vs 3 fingers. Looool, no one bothered to clean it up.
I don't know, the colour is uniform instead of being a "chaos cloud". I think it's just the perspective.
Cartoons are usually 3 fingers.
Cartoons is 4 fingers 3 diggits and a thumb. One hand has this, but the other is 2 digits and a thumb
"Why do you have a gun?"
"Don't worry, it's only for your protection."
Make it say something horrible and submit it to a local news outlet. They will probably shut it down right quick.






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