A chatbot used by Air Canada hallucinated an inaccurate bereavement discount policy, and a customer who flew based on this information sued the company over being misled. The small claims court sided with the deceived customer, arguing that the chatbot was acting as an official agent of Air Canada, and that there was no reason a customer should have to double check resources from one part of the Air Canada website against different parts of the same website.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    IIRC they were rated the worst airline in all of North America a few years back, and totally well deserved.

    What privatisation of state industries/services does to a mf.