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First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down. (www.bloodinthemachine.com)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They should be more concerned with calming down abusive customers -- or, in the even more likely event that the customer is justifiably irate, correcting whatever corporate fuckery incited the whole situation in the first place!

But of course they won't even consider that, and will place all the blame on the low-level peon instead.