Comment by davorak

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.