Yes but not free either. Spam works because it scales and even though 0.0000001% only might fall for it, it's still "worth" it. Here it might be 0.0001% instead but it's a lot more expensive, even with subsidized tokens, to do.
So it's interesting, feasible, but it's probably not as broad impact as the scariest scenario leads out to be.
Also I imagine that once exposed it becomes a well known pattern. Some will still fall from it but I imagine once it's been done few times it becomes even costlier.
The fact that Xz is mentioned and most of us know right away what it means show that we collectively learn.
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Yes but not free either. Spam works because it scales and even though 0.0000001% only might fall for it, it's still "worth" it. Here it might be 0.0001% instead but it's a lot more expensive, even with subsidized tokens, to do.
So it's interesting, feasible, but it's probably not as broad impact as the scariest scenario leads out to be.
Also I imagine that once exposed it becomes a well known pattern. Some will still fall from it but I imagine once it's been done few times it becomes even costlier.
The fact that Xz is mentioned and most of us know right away what it means show that we collectively learn.