Why would it be "distracted" by it? There certainly can be a bot that pays more attention to any feature the programmer instructs it to, but to what purpose? W

Why would it be "distracted" by it? There certainly can be a bot that pays more attention to any feature the programmer instructs it to, but to what purpose? What is the bot supposed to do with this particular stream of bits that was just promoted to its attention? If the answer is, "stop other productive work and waste CPU cycles" that says a lot more about what "turns on" the programmer than about the program itself.