It's indeed hard to take seriously such gross exaggeration. Even the deadliest plagues didn't kill everyone, so advocating this is a likely outcome of creating spam generators is laughable.
This is more likely a strategy, common in academia, of aggrandizing results (here risks) so that more eyeballs, attention and money is diverted towards the field and its proponents.
It's indeed hard to take seriously such gross exaggeration. Even the deadliest plagues didn't kill everyone, so advocating this is a likely outcome of creating spam generators is laughable.
This is more likely a strategy, common in academia, of aggrandizing results (here risks) so that more eyeballs, attention and money is diverted towards the field and its proponents.