Amazon Now Makes You Small-Talk With an AI Agent Just to Return Items
rounak · x · 2026-10-09
@rounak complains that Amazon now requires small talk with its AI customer-service agent just to process a return, with a screenshot of the exchange — a sign of conversational agents being forced into basic after-sales flows and the UX friction that follows.
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