I don't get what they were trying to prove. An LLM on it's own, little time and money... what were they expecting it to do? Not that I expect that different conditions would necessarily improve the situation, but seriously they didn't even give it a chance.

"Make as much money as you can" sounds like the prompt someone out of school would give.

Meanwhile they spammed the internet, sent fake invoices and a bunch of other very annoying if not even possibly illegal things.