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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.

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