AI chatbots criticized for mimicking insincere retail sales tactics

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-08-05 03:15

The author expresses a strong dislike for current AI chatbots, comparing their behavior to that of an overly familiar and insincere sales clerk in an American retail store. This realization provided a sense of validation for the author's previously felt, but unexplained, revulsion towards these AI interactions. AI

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AI chatbots criticized for mimicking insincere retail sales tactics

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you know that feeling when you go into a store hawking expensive shit you don't even want and then the staff come over and start chumming up to you, acting like

you know that feeling when you go into a store hawking expensive shit you don't even want and then the staff come over and start chumming up to you, acting like the friend you didn't want. laughing at the jokes you know aren't funny? well i realised this morning that every # ai c…

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you know that feeling when you go into a store hawking expensive shit you don't even want and then the staff come over and start chumming up to you, acting like

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