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There are likely only so many patterns that can exist and still be usable as a shareable and human reversible email address. Maybe one could have the llm identify these edge cases and write regex/code to parse future instances to convert back to a usable format.


Let's say the poster works at IBM and they want to provide a means for humans to contact them and frustrate scrapers so they say:

'My email address is my username@"the company no one ever got fired for buying from".com'

Write me a regex for that.

GPT on the other hand:

https://imgur.com/a/Hw0kcee


Yes, of course- my point was that the LLM could gradually write functions to parse most of the clever patterns as it comes across them. Use the LLM as a trapdoor when nothing else matches, and in the same text generation create a script to parse the same input next time.

I agree that the LLM is more versatile and retract what I wrote earlier saying that all patterns could be accounted for. I should have said most easy to figure out patterns.

https://imgur.com/a/uFV3XD9




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