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  • Tim Marlow
    SMF Supporters
    • Apr 2018
    • 18994
    • Tim
    • Somerset UK

    #1

    Absolute lunacy

    Dropped into mum’s yesterday to meet the house clearance team and pass her medical aids back, so picked up her post. One letter was from BT. Now, when she passed I contacted them and cancelled her phone. They sent her a letter that said, to paraphrase, “We are sorry you’ve died, but we are just letting you know that your BT services have been stopped as a consequence “. Utterly insane, but it did make me laugh, and I know it would have made her laugh.
  • Jim R
    SMF Supporters
    • Apr 2018
    • 15922
    • Jim
    • Shropshire

    #2
    Oh Tim. You couldn't make it up could you.

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    • Tim Marlow
      SMF Supporters
      • Apr 2018
      • 18994
      • Tim
      • Somerset UK

      #3
      You certainly couldn’t Jim…….

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      • Mickc1440
        SMF Supporters
        • Apr 2018
        • 4804

        #4
        It’s amazing how someone could look at that and not think it’s wrong

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        • Tim Marlow
          SMF Supporters
          • Apr 2018
          • 18994
          • Tim
          • Somerset UK

          #5
          Originally posted by Mickc1440
          It’s amazing how someone could look at that and not think it’s wrong
          Trouble is Mick, I don’t think anyone human had seen it. It’s almost certainly an automated AI generated reply letter. Still, the good news is that if that’s where it’s got to, AI probably won’t be taking over the world anytime soon……

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          • stillp
            SMF Supporters
            • Nov 2016
            • 8137
            • Pete
            • Rugby

            #6
            AI? Artificial Idiocy, not needed as there's plenty of the real thing about.
            A few weeks after my mother died, the estate agent we'd appointed to sell her house wrote a letter addressed to her, thanking her for choosing XXXX Estate Agents, and inviting her to phone them if there was anything else they could do. The last sentence of the letter was "We are truly sorry for your recent loss".
            Pete

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            • adt70hk
              SMF Supporters
              • Sep 2019
              • 10482

              #7
              Simply priceless!!! Made me laugh..... And despair in equal measure.

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              • Tim Marlow
                SMF Supporters
                • Apr 2018
                • 18994
                • Tim
                • Somerset UK

                #8
                Just made me laugh Andrew. No point in getting upset, no one has done it deliberately to offend.

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                • Waspie
                  • Mar 2023
                  • 3488

                  #9
                  Lunacy as you say Tim. Maybe BT use ChatGP or what ever that app is!!! Sad companies don't use people anymore!!

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                  • rtfoe
                    • Apr 2018
                    • 9195

                    #10
                    We're having the same problem in Parliment with elected members who don't reflect their credentials and making headlines for the wrong reasons.:rolling:
                    Yours was more amusing and light hearted.

                    Cheers,
                    Wabble

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                    • Graeme C.
                      • Apr 2018
                      • 1628
                      • Graeme
                      • UK

                      #11
                      It does make you wonder, I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry, get angry or just despair.

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                      • Tim Marlow
                        SMF Supporters
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 18994
                        • Tim
                        • Somerset UK

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Graeme C.
                        It does make you wonder, I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry, get angry or just despair.
                        Best just to laugh at it Graeme. We can’t change it so why get stressed over it…..

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                        • Airborne01
                          • Mar 2021
                          • 4098
                          • Steve
                          • Essex

                          #13
                          Originally posted by rtfoe
                          We're having the same problem in Parliment with elected members who don't reflect their credentials and making headlines for the wrong reasons.:rolling:
                          Yours was more amusing and light hearted.

                          Cheers,
                          Wabble
                          Same here Wabble - on both counts, but particularly the first!
                          Steve

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