A free-host heuristic alone scores insanely high on PhishNChips

antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-10-25

antoinechaffin notes you can get insanely high accuracy on the PhishNChips phishing detection benchmark with one trivial heuristic: checking whether the host is a free host — exposing likely distribution bias in the benchmark.

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