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Yeah, I'd be pretty furious if I got spam email from some "AI agent" thanking me for my contributions too I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...

simonwillison.netHow Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …

rob pike@robpike.io

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Allen Goodman

@allen.bsky.social

26 Dec 2025

Why did you edit what he actually wrote?

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

26 Dec 2025

Because I don't like using swear words on my blog My first draft left out those two paragraphs entirely and just quoted "[...] I can’t remember the last time I was this angry" but that felt like I was misrepresenting him so I changed it