State Farm Billing System Broken After AI Platform Migration
After State Farm migrated to an AI-based system, long-term customers lost the ability to pay bills using a key code. The transition was apparently made without backward compatibility or customer communication. Users are locked out of a payment method they have relied on for decades.
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