An e-commerce CEO is getting absolutely roasted online for laying off 90% of his support staff after an AI chatbot outperformed them
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Suumit Shah, the CEO of Bengaluru-based Dukaan, said the chatbot answered customer queries in 2 minutes — a task that took the humans over 2 hours.

In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    “My support costs are $100 a month.”

    Yet you employ 3 support staff? So That’s like $0.80/hr. Even in India the minimum wage is around $1.07/hr from my quick search.

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Maybe they pay on another metric than by the hour - if they had 1 admin task to handle it would make more sense to use shared capacity / non-dedicated person.