Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot

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Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
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Air Canada has some really dumb lawyers. They could have quietly paid the guy a couple hundred bucks and moved on. Now they're all over the news, showing off how callous and idiotic they are.

Not only that, they set a precedent that will hugely discourage the use of LLM chatbots too. Great for us humans though

I bet they make so much money too...

Overpaid lawyer 1: Fight this or settle?

Overpaid lawyer 2: Let's fight this, I have a good feeling about it...

Overpaid lawyer 1: This won't set a precedent or anything right...right...

Right?

And the customer service benefit they would've gotten from just eating a few hundred dollars.

But they were being extra greedy, and thinking they could establish precedent... Well they did, just not how they wanted.