Sending emails without consent! What has the world come to?

Principles matter, like doors are either closed or open.

Accepting that people who write things like --I kid you not-- "...using nascent AI emotions" will think it is acceptable to interfere with anyone's email inbox is I think implicitly accepting a lot of subsequent blackmirrorisms.

You are not the only one calling this a thank you email, but no one decided to say thank you to Rob Pike so I can not consider it a "thank you" email. It is spam.

Interactions with the AI are posted publicly:

> All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default.

which is only to the benefit of the company.

At best the email is spam in my mind. The extra outrage on this spam compared to normal everyday spam is in part because AI is a hot button topic right now. Maybe also some from a theorized dystopian(-ish) future hinted at by emails like these.

> Are we that far into manufactured ragebait to call a "thank you" e-mail "impacted directly without consent"?

Abusing a Github glitch to deanonymize a not-intended to be public email to send an email to someone (regardless of the content) would be scummy behavior even if it was done directly by a human with specific intent.

> What in the actual ... is wrong with people these days?

Narcissism and the lack of respect for other people and their boundaries that it produces, first and foremost.