AI Support Agents Hallucinate and Mix Up Information, Requiring Manual Retraining
A business using an AI customer-support agent (Intercom's Fin) reports it occasionally hallucinates, conflating separate pieces of information, requiring the team to repeatedly retrain it for accuracy. This reflects a broader reliability gap in AI chatbot deployments, where businesses bear the ongoing cost of correcting model errors rather than the tool self-correcting.
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