If I've learned one thing in life: some people are totally shameless.

Likely the LLM operator is just a 'likes to see the world burn' type.

They don't seem to care all that much... https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

Edit: the posts comments suggest that someone believes they are a crypto bro.

> Or is this some weird publicity stunt? (But then why is nobody walking forward to take credit?)

Indeed, that's a good question. What motivations might someone have to keep this running?

Maybe they don't even know.

I mean, they have it publishing blog posts about its actions -- one would think they'd read its own blog at the very least? (Unless.. scary thought.. this person unleashed so many bots that they're not even bothering to look)

For the lolz.

Some people are just terrible like that

I guess, but the "for the lolz" crowd seems unlikely to target.. scientific computing. My conspiracy theory (I have no proof of this) is that this seems like it might be an (attempt) at an academic paper. It reminds me of the professor that tried to sneak security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel.