{"id":2808,"date":"2021-02-20T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2021-02-20T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T13:49:51","slug":"another-conversation-with-a-facebook-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Another Conversation With A Facebook Chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have now entered the era of Facebook Robocalls. Mark Zuckerburg&#8217;s elves are busy developing AI systems to sell you things. A recent call is designed to entice you into securing a loan with a finance company. The robocall starts with a friend request from a human-type person with a home location and a job title at Facebook and rapidly evolves into a mechanical sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>I asked if the caller was a chatbot and immediately revealed the true nature of the call. I then probed to see what questions the chatbot could handle and discovered a new feature in this chatbot. A human agent was brought in when the chatbot got responses it could not handle, like my request for job opportunities writing chatbots at Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the record of our conversation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2810\" src=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-1.jpg 804w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-1-300x144.jpg 300w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-1-768x370.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2811\" src=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"797\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-2.jpg 797w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-2-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-2-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2812\" src=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-3-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-3-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2813\" src=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-4.jpg 803w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-4-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/makingripples.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FBBOT-4-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice that the comment, &#8220;Where are you from?&#8221; is from a live agent, not a chatbot response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have now entered the era of Facebook Robocalls. Mark Zuckerburg&#8217;s elves are busy developing AI systems to sell you things. A recent call is designed to entice you into securing a loan with a finance company. The robocall starts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=2808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1853,1832],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-Ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}