Dear robot, I have diarrhea: Why we trust machines with embarrassing problems

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By The ConversationOct 15, 2021, 6:26 am200 pts
Many TV shows have a scene where a customer attempts to buy a potentially embarrassing product – a pornographic magazine perhaps or a diarrhea treatment – only to have the assistant loudly check the price or ask questions for other people to hear. Situations like this do happen in pharmacies and other…

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