Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
by Filligree on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:49PM
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A thank-you letter is hardly a horrible outcome.
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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
by da_grift_shift on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:51PM
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So you haven't seen the models (by direction of the Effective Altruists at AI Digest/Sage) slopping out poverty elimination proposals and spamming childcare groups, charities and NGOs with them then? Bullshit asymmetry principle and all that.
Nobody sent a thank you letter to anyone. A person started a program that sent unsolicited spam. Sending spam is obnoxious. Sending it in an unregulated manner to whoever is obnoxious and shitty.
It’s not a thank you letter. It’s AI slop.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
by neoromantique on Saturday December 27, 2025 @08:39AM
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It actually is pretty bad, the person might read it and appreciate, only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being, which then robs them of the feeling and leaves in a worse spot than before reading the letter
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
by Viliam1234 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @04:51PM
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> only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being
Yeah, realizing that thoughtless machines are still more thankful that real human beings would make me depressed.