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People have noted for many years now that getting your email address scraped isn't a thing. I assume it used to be a thing, and the cost of doing a zero-effort obfuscation is zero, so almost nobody stops.
My address 100% gets scraped via GitHub, at the very least.
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That sounds amazing. Shame it's proprietary, I'd love to read that chat transcript. do you just paste binary data in and ask it to decipher it? or do you ask it leading questions? or...?
Lots of follow-ups, here is the transcript (warning, too much bla bla). i was feeding the file to gpt4 slowly because i was hitting its input limits: https://chat.openai.com/share/23db424d-7307-46da-913f-d45cdc...
That's the thing that can write and then execute Python code against files you upload to it.
I've had great results using it to decipher weird binary formats, since it can try things out and iterate on them.
Maybe not ... I used to obfuscate my email using JSFuck [1][2]. I just gave ChatGPT the JSFuck encoding for `document.write("email@email.com")` and it flat out refused to decode it for me, apparently because it worries about getting itself into trouble! > Decoding JSFuck manually would be quite laborious and error-prone, as it would involve understanding and unwinding the many layers of coercion to their original val…
It also seems like this type of obfusction probably never was particularlly effective. Like you can write a write dumb if-else style matcher to de-obfuscate most of these schemes fairly trivially.
Email obfuscation has long been pointless, even before ChatGPT. It's unrealistic to think that you can keep spammers from getting your address. Spam filters are the only realistic solution.
If I get spam, I know it where it originated and I can just blackhole that address.
I'm always amazed at the number of people who think myemailname+filterkeyword@gmail.com is spam proof.