#automated calling systems

[fonadaa]

Automated outbound phone calls offer recorded voice interaction with the caller without human intervention. With the help of automated outbound calls, you can record the message, set up the call, and send it to your targeted audience anytime. These calls serve multiple purposes, such as call reminders, blasts, feedback, event-based calls, and follow-ups. Also, automated outbound calls help you completely track your sales activities and optimize the number of support tickets.

#Automated Outbound Calls #automated calling software #automated outbound calling #automated calling systems

[clonerightsagenda]

That w359 post is why the only non-Hephaestus AU I've posted about was the community college employees one because working at a community college is roughly equivalent to working on a crumbling space station in terms of pressure cooker environments that bond you through trauma. Yesterday I got calls and texts that there was a tornado but the college never turned the interior alert system on. Then an hour later I was on lunch break and the water stopped working because they'd turned it off to do a test at 11:30. Then two hours after that we lost internet for 30 minutes. The facilities guy told us he personally won't drink the water but refused to elaborate.

#me: I just got a text saying there's a tornado warning #coworker: well the sirens aren't going off and our alerts aren't going and we haven't gotten a campus text #me picking up my work phone: just got an automated call from the city saying there's a tornado and to take shelter #coworker: the alerts still haven't gone off though #me: do you really trust this school to keep us ali- #*tornado sirens started midsentence* #we shepherded all the students downstairs and the campus emergency text finally went out 10 minutes after the siren #the alert system never did U_U #never mind I lied I posted about a good place AU #but that is also an environment forcing people together #the point is they would not get along organically #these are not meetcute people

[blueberryfruitbat]

local batty yells at machine to cancel their old ISP, more at 11

#batty babbles #i just hate being an adult with social issues having to deal with all these automated voice garbage systems #i wont say the isp but this one has the GULL to FAKE KEYBOARD SOUNDS AND WASTE EVEN MORE TIME #fun fact #most of these machines are programed to respond to yelling and swearing so i just shouted a swear at it to talk to a real person. #i know they're made to save time but ffs i go to the assistant bot; assistant bot tells me to call; go to call and then call bot tells me #to go talk to the assistant bot #and not the first time i went through this 15 step process with this company thats been bleeding me of 100$ a month for shit service #rant #negative #didnt meant for it to become a rant in the tags kinda thing but here we are.

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

So hows it going 😀

TMAGP 7 is a WILD ride

#First we're already starting off with the end of tmagp 6 with Celia Ripley being the new hire #(And having the same voice actress as a extremely side tma character who started calling herself Celia post-change) #Then you get fucking hit with #“I mean it's an old system but it could have been worse. It's not like we're wrestling with tape recorders and manila folders.” #AND CELIA ASKING IF THERE'S A WAY TO SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC THINGS. LIKE BEING BURIED ALIVE OR MEAT. #I.E. THE BURIED AND THE FLESH #I'm much more inclined to believe that the Celia's memories are seeping into each other than bit characters full on universe hopping #(Oh yeah The Magnus Protocol is set in a world that's parallel to The Magnus Archives; not technically a direct sequel) #[But like they are chronologically. I think.] #Anyway CELIA KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS UP #And you'd think things might calm down with today's incident report; it's just Chester (“ai”/“automated voice” also voiced by Jonathan Sims #[who voices character Jonathan Sims. Creative genius we know.] #with another internet-based statement #(HE'S TRAPPED IN THE FUCKING WEB) #Except know it's about a charity shop ON HILLTOP ROAD #For context: EVERY ELDRITCH ENTITY AND THEIR MOTHER FUCK AROUND WITH HILLTOP ROAD #PRIMARILY THE AFOREMENTIONED WEB #WHICH HARBORED THE MESSIAH OF THE CULT OF THE LIGHTLESS FLAME #AND THE CHARITY SHOP *BURNED DOWN* BY THE END OF THE INCIDENT REPORT #We then cut to the other new hire Sam going to talk to Colin the IT guy #Colin's definitely going to be the first to die he's in DEEP in trying to understand the mess of of system that is the OIAR #And he's been adamant against Alice giving the computers any sense of a personality #And what does Sam go to ask Colin? WHO JON IS #BECUASE HE GOT A NONSENSICAL EMAIL FROM A RANDOM USER WHO CALLED HIMSELF JON BUT IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS AN INTERNAL EMAIL #Obviously Colin's to steeped in paranoia to react well to anything; but what is he hung up on? #That Sam brought his phone into the IT room; and that “it” has probably recorded too much already *!!!!!!!* #Oh and also their boss was like contracted to kill a guy but she failed and Gwen is using a video of it to blackmail her #tmagp spoilers

[an-aura-about-you]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I'm usually pretty chill about making phone calls but I have to make a phone call in The Nebulous Future and I'm inexplicably nervous about it.

#it's not even a big deal I just have to tell my insurance company that my mortgage is paid off #which means I have to pay my condo insurance directly now since no more mortgage means no more escrow account #and that's fucking awesome but I'm like aaaaaa why wasn't this just automated when I paid off my mortgage? #seems like it could've been #also I'm way overdue for a physical and should call about that but also I don't want to get it done anytime soon? #not from any nervousness of having a physical but because I know the health system is fucking strained from covid

[zemnarihah]

if u guys knew what is going on at my work today....

#we have this automated calling system that calls on like lower priority stuff like low batteries from ppls alarms and stuff... it's broken.. #and is calling people in excess of. supposedly 20 times per each one call it is supposed to make #so ppl are calling in pissed and like yeah. id be pissed. but apparently there is quite literally nothing we can do?? there is no way to #just turn it off and call on the low prio stuff ourselves... so we are flooded with pissed off inbound calls and have no explanation to give #supposedly they're working on it im on lunch rn i'm hoping they get it figured out by the time i'm back #i fantasize all the time abt just closing my laptop and walking away and man. if ever there was a day that i actually did it...

[kawaiimunism]

I gotta be real, I don't understand the people freaking out that Sudowrite/GPT-3 is scraping AO3 for training data. If someone's tumblr vent posts or whatever are getting caught up in a webcrawler, that's one thing, since that's writing that they never meant for anyone to find, but this is writing that authors posted on the internet specifically so other people could read it, and I don't see how there's any ethical difference between a human author reading a fic and drawing inspiration from it vs. a machine doing the exact same thing.

Don't get me wrong, if someone's robots.txt or whatever tells my crawler not to access a page, I intend to respect that, whether I understand their reasons or not, and the ability to hide your data from webcrawlers should be a basic feature on any website. I'm not saying that OpenAI should scrape AO3 against the wishes of fic authors, I'm just saying that I don't understand why so many fic authors feel that way in the first place.

At first I thought maybe I just didn't get it since I'm not really into fanfiction, but I am a programmer and I similarly don't understand the GitHub Copilot lawsuit. Almost all corporate code is built on the back of open source software projects, it's been that way for ages, and I don't see how using open source code to train AI code generation is meaningfully different.

If you're (justifiably) concerned about being automated out of a job, that's not a problem unique to art or generative AI. That's a problem with capitalism, and one of its ongoing crises: Increasing automation also increases production efficiency at the expense of putting workers out of jobs, which in turn decreases the overall buying power of the working class, making it harder to actually sell that new product. It's coming for us all, and the only way to stop it is to destroy the economic system that creates it.

I guess I'm biased since NLP and computational linguistics are my target area of expertise, and I'm a serious IP abolitionist to boot, but I really do not understand the outrage here.

#ai #nlp #gpt3 #sudowrite #ao3 #fanfiction #to clarify on calling concerns about being automated out of a job justifiable: #these systems are far far FAR from being able to wholly replace human authors or artists or programmers #i meant justifiable in the sense that if you *are* at risk of being automated out a job it makes absolute sense to be mad about that

[icantalk710]

Begging these folks who like/rb posts from me without prior interaction who have blank bios and/or untitled/default blog titles to please update their bios/blog titles so that my first instinct isn't to report as bot and block

#tekisuto #if i can't see selfies or other ways to tell a real person apart from a bot i will block lol #[also random aside but i have been now on two calls dealing with automated phone systems-- #one for a physical appt & one on having to pay back loans despite getting a refund thru Biden's inept/easily-overturned cancellation plan-- #and both are taking absurdly long to connect me to someone... why? #the doe's phone line not taking you to an associate until you specify your very specific situation their auto system isn't prepped for 🙄 #for the physical it's also dealing with the facility i'd gone to having rebranded since my last time there but] #[also cancel all student loans]

[clarafordahwin]

I'm watching the new sunny and its so boring. Ross Maloney you have written 1 (one) epsiode of television and it sucks ass.

#like automated call systems are annoying but i promise that boba tea shops will sell you regular tea #shut up clark

[shesaysdisco]

I have to be a grown up and make phone calls today and I really don’t want to be a grown up and make phone calls today

#Walmart pharmacy changed their automated phone system and it sucks ass now #I have to call my doctor to get new refills instead of the pharmacy asking for new refills #personal

[kaeyaphile]

don’t mind me, just rambling about my new job:

we are processing all priorities (high ie: fire/burglary/panic alarms as well as low ie: trouble/supervisory/etc signals) all day until 2:30pm (we work 8am-4:30pm) and tbqh i would rather perish in a terrible fire lmfao but hopefully i just get a majority of low priorities and not a majority of high priorities OR hopefully people keep canceling before i dispatch 😂🤞🏻 also i’ve been so terrified of quality assurance and getting fired for being bad at my job but nobody has ever been fired due to quality assurance scores because the cool thing about this company is that they actually put their employees through training again and HELP THEM SUCCEED rather than punishing them which i mean the bar is in hell but it is very nice to know that i am not going to be fired if i make a few mistakes 🤷🏼‍♀️

#kayleigh.txt #at least we don’t have to leave any godforsaken voicemails anymore we can just have our automated system do it #the only reason you’ll be fired is calling out a lot (our job is essential) which won’t be an issue for me #because all i do is sit in a comfortable desk chair and spin around and make calls all day no manual labor necessary 🎉 #my chronic illnesses and mental illnesses are crying with relief 😂 👏🏻

[monsterhugger]

getting a job be like "i sent you my social security number please respond"

#already gotten two shift change requests through the automated system #still havent gotten called or emailed to do training or the in-person part of my hiring paperwork tho lol #been a week

[milo-is-rambling]

Okay I have an interview at Office Depot on Tuesday at 3:30

#I had to call back like three times bc they have an automated system answer and they don’t give you an option to just talk to someone you #have ti pick an answer so I had to just keep picking options until someone actually picked up #but I’m scheduled #no help from my bird tho who was fucking screaming in the background I had to go into another room to make the phone call #okay NOW. I’m going to go smoke a cigarette outside and then shower #📤

[phonesuitedirect]

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[senadimell]

look, I’m tech stupid and so admittedly I don’t know how this would work, but it would be incredibly FANTASTIC if there were secure text-based/non-phone call-based ways to communicate remotely with doctors that didn’t require giving non-HIPAA-bound companies access to my personal medical data

because frankly, it sucks but yeah, I do give them access because if I have to call by phone to request each thing individually and keep track manually of when I need refills of everything (and they’re on different refill cycle lengths and from different pharmacies), I will mess up sometimes and suffer the consequences. I’m lucky, I won’t die or have my health and survival endangered or anything. I’ll just be in pain. Patient portals and communicate-via-text plans are such a wonderful sounding idea for accessibility reasons but I wish they were more secure and private...

#us medical system #disability #privacy #patient rights #(i guess—pretty minor issue compared to being robbed of autonomy but it does still seem a relevant tag?) #is an actually private+secure patient portal too much to ask for? #see also: tracker apps #yeah it absolutely sucks that they're not at all private #but frankly the only way for me to actually track migraines effectively and communicate that with my doctor is via app #and so i go for it #this feels like an area for legislation but i'm not sure congress can actually make good tech legislation? #see also: physically meeting with a doctor every single month to get an adhd prescription #please just give me a non-call remote option if i have to do this every month #can i phone call? yes. i have trained for it. will i procrastinate &/or forget &/or only remember at 9 pm when the pharmacy sleeps? yes. #phone calls kinda suck and i kinda hate asking people to repeat themselves three times on the other end #and don't get me STARTED on automated *talk-to-this-program* options that don't let you immediately opt-out and talk to a person #press 1 for this is INFINITELY BETTER than having to ask a robot complex questions that i know it is not capable of understanding #/jumping through hoops to figure out how to ask the question in the simplest way for it to send me to the right department to talk to a huma #i know when the robot won't understand me so if you don't give me an option to avoid it i hate your company. thanks

[pervyxxcurvy]

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#you know its a long ass wait on hold when the automated system straight up says *we won't be getting to your call today* #like damn guess i'll just see myself out then.. #now i gotta call back tomorrow all early n shit 🙄😭 #i hate that this is like...important #fuck adulting