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Last week, I was using Perplexity to help me create a lesson on anonymizing production data. As I was reviewing the generated output, everything looked good until I got to the section on anonymization strategies. Perplexity had generated this:

WordPress provides several built-in sanitization functions that should be leveraged in custom anonymization scripts:

// Sanitize email addresses

$sanitized_email = sanitize_email( $raw_email );

// Sanitize text fields

$sanitized_text = sanitize_text_field( $raw_text );

// Sanitize file names

$sanitized_filename = sanitize_file_name( $raw_filename );

// Sanitize HTML content

$sanitized_html = wp_kses_post( $raw_html );

If you know anything about WordPress development API functions, you know that sanitization is not the same as anonymization. If you want to see how wrong a vibe-coded project can go, check out my first attempt at building a browser-based 3D shooter game. Fair warning, only attempt to open the game in your browser if you have a lot of free RAM.