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Re:AutoRegex by gd3kr on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:28AM (#32033368)
Hey! I’m the creator of www.autoregex.xyz (@gd3kr on twitter) I originally built it as a small side project in a couple days, I was absolutely not expecting a response this massive. I realise concerns about email and password sign up, and I built it in an hour-ish with firebase auth as a temporary solution to capping the sudden surge in GPT3 requests to the server after the twitter post gained traction. Im working on a better approach to that involving not having to create an account. Otherwise, all suggestions are absolutely welcome. Please tell me how I can make this a better experience for everyone.
Re:AutoRegex by knolan on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:16AM (#32033591)
You could probably include a ‘Why do I need to sign up?’ disclaimer.
Re:AutoRegex by mkl on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:41AM (#32034089)
Two of your three examples are incorrect as they're missing backslashes. /^nw*g$/i should be /^n\w*g$/i and (?=.*d) should be (?=.*\d).
Re:AutoRegex by chowells on Saturday July 09, 2022 @02:40PM (#32038045)
So I was talking to a friend about this, and he thought this was a parody because of all the obviously incorrect results you were highlighting in the Twitter thread. Other people have mentioned the \ escapes going missing, but my friend called out https://twitter.com/gd3kr/status/1545495732265766913 as so hilariously wrong that it couldn't have been anything other than a parody.

Is this really a parody, or is it just another example of people not actually reading GPT-3 output carefully enough to notice it's nonsense?

Re:AutoRegex by gd3kr on Sunday July 10, 2022 @12:52AM (#32041962)
Hey, no it’s not a parody lmao. I shipped it because realised it could have at least some utility while building it. To be fair, the wrong examples would be an oversight on my part, but I thought of them being more of genuine benchmark of what GPT3 was capable of; sort of like an experimental feature. I’m working hard on refining the results by fine tuning DaVinci and getting the output as close to ideal as possible — I think there’s a lot of potential there. In the end, even boosting a user’s productivity marginally is a win in my book, and as a lot of people have pointed out, it’s already doing that to some extent.
Re:AutoRegex by kelnos on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:29AM (#32033661)
Was curious to try it, but got turned off when asked to create an account, and didn't bother.
Re:AutoRegex by GeneralPie on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#32058091)
How do I delete my account?