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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

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.

Keeley 🌸
@vertedin.de

I kind of get it, tbh - getting a thank you note vs an angry demand in open source is already pretty rare, and to read something seemingly heartfelt only to get to the end and see that there was no human behind it at all and it's an AI spam email would also hit me in a somewhat raw spot.

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