I had a very different reaction. I had the sense this was an art world person (student or otherwise) who wasn’t technical enough to make it interesting. Many computer generated art projects are much more dynamic and produce much more passable art (https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/posts/clip-art/). That said, I think I would have to agree with other comments here, I don’t think any deep conclusions could be drawn from these results. For starters the artworks are really repetitive and i would guess it biases respondents quickly toward the negative.
$10,000? Really? It always shocks me how cheap people are. You would think that if any actual adversary wanted information they believed would be helpful in replicating or attacking a nuclear submarine, the price tag they would be willing to pay would be much higher. The guy and his wife are both idiots and they are undoubtedly facing severe consequences. Let’s all hope they never had the opportunity to have children.
$100k is what they gave him in total, $5MM is what they promised him. The delta is because he was selling the papers bit by bit in return for partial payment.
He asked for 100000$ for the first drop in order to start a relationship. 10000$ first and then 20000$ is what the FBI gave him for proof he had what he said he had. Amusingly he was aware that these amounts were in line with baits used by the FBI and comments on it.
I remember a post awhile ago that showed the political donations some senators, who voted on some controversial issues, recently received. I was surprised some of them were bought off in the low ten-thousands.
He asked for $5,000,000 in total. You're focused on the initial amounts when he was like "give me a little cash and I'll give you a few pages from my 10,000 pages of stuff".
