{"id":32019,"date":"2018-11-23T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-story-of-lenny-a-chatbot-designed-to-make\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:21:44","slug":"the-story-of-lenny-a-chatbot-designed-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-story-of-lenny-a-chatbot-designed-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of &#8220;Lenny&#8221; &#8212; a chatbot designed to make telemarketing unprofitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/180419873715\/the-story-of-lenny-a-chatbot-designed-to-make\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/08589a6fd06430c87b8bb4cbbb81cb8c\/tumblr_inline_pinwtkV9m91rkw4x1_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I get several robocalls a day, along with Microsoft tech support scams, and IRS scams. The calls get forwarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/jollyrogertelephone.com\">Jolly Roger Telephone<\/a> bots that engage in inane conversations with the pests. <\/p>\n<p>From Jolly Roger\u2019s website: By keeping the bad guys busy, you keep<br \/>\nthem from pestering other innocent people, and you hit them where it<br \/>\nhurts most\u2026their wallets\u2026because no matter how hard they try, our<br \/>\nrobots won\u2019t ever buy anything.<\/p>\n<p>Before Jolly Roger, there was \u201cLenny,\u201d a senior with a strong<br \/>\nAustralian accent who loves to talk and talk and talk to telemarketers,<br \/>\neven when they become furious and abusive. <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/d3b7na\/the-story-of-lenny-the-internets-favorite-telemarketing-troll\">Motherboard has a good article about the origin of \u201cLenny.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/11\/23\/the-story-of-lenny-a-ch.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/11\/23\/the-story-of-lenny-a-ch.html<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Useful chatbots <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: I get several robocalls a day, along with Microsoft tech support scams, and IRS scams. The calls get forwarded to Jolly Roger Telephone bots that engage in inane conversations with the pests. From Jolly Roger\u2019s website: By keeping the bad guys busy, you keep them from pestering other innocent people, and you hit them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8kr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}