The AI tried to check my airline tickets. Both airline sites blocked it.

A man asked the AI to log into AA.com and United.com to check his tickets. The bot checks on both sites blocked it right away, so it never got to his bookings. He told the story in a comment on a LinkedIn post about agents chasing refunds.

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How it works

Ask the AI to log into AA.com to check his tickets
Site bot checks block it at once
Ask the AI to log into United.com
Blocked there too
No ticket details came back

Why it’s worth knowing

Two big airline sites stopped a personal agent at the login page, before it could do a simple ticket check.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on linkedin.com. See the original ↗

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