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How to ask a BOT trick questions to find out if it’s really a BOT? ?

Or, is there any kind of computer language code to throw at a bot to make the bot reveal something?

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  • 1 month ago
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    What is the type of application?

    For a webpage you can have an iframe that renders after the page is displayed. A bot scanning the raw HTML can not see it. That is how a Captcha with only a checkmark works. 

  • 1 month ago

    Ask it 10101111111100000000000011010100000. That should make it reveal it's a bot.

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    A well-written bot won't be susceptible to code injection. Even if it was, you would need to know what language the bot was written in.

    That said, simply injecting code into your query would likely prompt a real person to say "WTF does that mean?", while a bot would usually have a generic canned answer, like "I'm not sure how to answer that."  

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