Why people hate chatbots, and how not to build one
People do not hate chatbots. They hate chatbots that will not let them reach a person, and chatbots that answer confidently and wrongly.
Both are design choices. We build assistants that answer from your own documented content, say so plainly when they do not know, and escalate with the whole conversation attached so the customer never repeats themselves. The report on what it could not answer is often more valuable than the deflection rate.