If you could construct a sandbox to test this, where it doesn’t touch the real economy, then yeah it’s a great benchmark. As it is, real humans spent real busi

If you could construct a sandbox to test this, where it doesn’t touch the real economy, then yeah it’s a great benchmark. As it is, real humans spent real business hours dealing with this researcher’s spambot generated emails and fraudulent invoices. Individual recipients reported feeling harassed. This isn’t a good benchmark. It’s a series of socially destructive crimes committed by the researchers and then documented and published on the internet.