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I asked the AI to fix my phone number problem. Visible blocked it at every turn.

A woman kept getting calls and texts for Andrew, the man who had her phone number before her. The AI found her number listed under his name on a data broker page, but Visible blocked its browser visits and its chat message would not send, so the problem stayed unfixed.

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How it works

  1. She told the AI the problem and uploaded an example text
  2. The AI searched and found her number on a data broker page under Andrew's name
  3. Visible blocked the AI’s browser visits
  4. The AI got into the guest chat but the send button would not submit its message
  5. A browser takeover hit a 403 error
  6. The AI drafted a message for her to paste herself and gave advice on removing broker listings
  7. She gave up

Why it’s worth knowing

The blocker was not the agent's skill. The phone company's own bot protection stopped the agent from even sending a message, so the job fell back to copy and paste by hand.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on nanobyte.site. See the original ↗

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