LL needs to implement a way to detect bots via script - urgently

[Coffee Pancake]

1 hour ago, Rick Nightingale said:

I've just noticed that the wiki page for llGetAgentInfo now has Agent_Automated as a parameter. It's in red... not sure what that means and I don't have a bot handy to point the function at to see if it works. Even if it's not active yet, it clearly is going to be now.

It doesn't work yet.

[Quistess Alpha]

6 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

It's in red... not sure what that means

Red just means it doesn't have a wiki page for that specific constant, either because it's new or doesn't work yet, or in this case, both.

[Coffee Pancake]

35 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said:

Red just means it doesn't have a wiki page for that specific constant, either because it's new or doesn't work yet, or in this case, both.

I tested it recently .. no bots detected

[Jaylinbridges]

I was near NCI and noticed a cluster of dots nearby, around 15 typical. Once I was on their parcel, which was bare land, I could see all these bots on a platform about 250 m in the sky. They all would leave and come back, in about 10 secs, as this was their Home location.  I collected about 60 names on this platform in the course of 15 mins, and as expected all had NO PIOF and a blank profile, and were about 1 year old. Would be helpful to know it these bots are registered agents.  Because it's obvious their purpose is to survey the grid 24/7.   I also recognized many of the names as cluttering up the ban list on my parcel orb.  Nothing new here, just curious to watch them in action.  You can find them on Ukanipo, on the Mainland.

[xDancingStarx]

This feature will be useful to recognize store bots, RP bots etc on the mini map. If I tp to a place and see a dot, I'd like to know if it's a bot or a human (not talking about traffic bots but store bots etc!) and I'm sure it's gonna get implemented as dot colour.

 

 

Edited June 12, 2023 by xDancingStarx

[Love Zhaoying]

7 hours ago, xDancingStarx said:

This feature will be useful to recognize store bots, RP bots etc on the mini map. If I tp to a place and see a dot, I'd like to know if it's a bot or a human (not talking about traffic bots but store bots etc!) and I'm sure it's gonna get implemented as dot colour.

 

 

The new LSL function is not for changing colors on the mini-map. It is for scripters to write new scripts to detect scripted agents. So, unless I missed a post, I do not see a connection between the mini-map "colors" and the new LSL function. 

Edited June 12, 2023 by Love Zhaoying

[Phil Deakins]

9 hours ago, Rick Nightingale said:

I've just noticed that the wiki page for llGetAgentInfo now has Agent_Automated as a parameter. It's in red... not sure what that means and I don't have a bot handy to point the function at to see if it works. Even if it's not active yet, it clearly is going to be now.

It doesn't detect bots. It's only for returning whether or not an account is registered as a scripted agent. I.e. you can register yourself as a scripted agent, log in with a viewer and do your normal things, and it will tell a script that you are registered as a scripted agent, even though you are not a bot.