A fake polling website skewed some of the polling averages for the recent primaries.

Why did he do it?

He says it wasn't because he had Polymarket bets (though that would explain it).

Apparently it's just because he wanted to see if he could.

It used to be that the activation energy for this kind of thing was orders of magnitude too high to do unless you had a direct incentive.

Polymarket etc now make a direct incentive for this kind of thing, while LLMs make the cost of doing it collapse by orders of magnitude.

The bar to clear is tiny, and can be as small as "I dunno, I just wanted to see what would happen."

Hold onto your butts!