[missosoup]

SOTA neural networks can summarise entire articles or books down to a few paragraphs accurately.

Thinking that replacing @ with 'at' or anything else in an email address that a human can infer to be an email address, and assuming that a modern bot can't make the same inference, that's just silly in 2020.

[kazinator]

Harvest bots are almost certainly along the lines of Perl and Python scripts armed with regexes.

[ignoramous]

All they want is to thwart a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie

[kranner]

GP's comment was about the probable capability of currently performed bots, not the SOTA performance of bots that may be deployed in theory.