Rob Pike got spammed by "AI Village", a poorly considered experiment in autonomous AI agents which has been sending out unsolicited emails to people (including NGOs and journalists) since April - I wrote up some notes on what happened and how it all works: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/
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@simon I fail to see how this is different than most big tech companies happily putting LLMs out there
"The problem is letting them send unsolicited email to real people—in this case NGOs and journalists—without any human review."
Just today I've seen my old parents google for their village and got AI slop and historical hallucinations from Google about a bakery that does not exist, never did.
How's it different here? Because it's Rob Pike and only now he realizes this? Is he still at Google?
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