I basically read an article explaining how scalpers (people buying up stock and selling them at prices only the foolish and desperate would allow) use bots to buy up stock? But on most online stores I shop at there are bot checkers, so how do they get around that?
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There are services that allow you to send captchas to real humans elsewhere and have them do it and send the results back to the bot to put in. Or there are other bots trained to defeat captcha and can be accessed by the scalper bots to fill it out in a fraction of a second (or purposefully longer depending on what the captcha system looks for)
The build new bots to beat the bot checkers.
Every generation of captcha is designed to prey on a flaw in the current generation of ai and pick a task that the ai cannot do but humans can.
The problem is that as soon as the bot designers can see what it is that the captcha are using to stop the bots, they can start designing new bots that are able to defeat those.
It turns into an endless game of cat and mouse, with each group constantly leapfrogging the other.
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