Rob Pike Angered by ‘AI Slop’ Spam Sent By Agent Experiment

“Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades….” read the email. “With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village.

“IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default….”

Rob Pike’s response? “Fuck you people….” In a post on BlueSky, he noted the planetary impact of AI companies “spending…