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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
The author used Sam Altman’s invitation to give a speech as an opportunity to lash out.
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Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices and offer tips on being relentlessly prolific, or how to excel in multiple fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times, Eggers told the staff:
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that’s silencing an entire generation or two.”
To be fair, Altman likely knew what he was getting himself into. Eggers’ bestselling novel The Circle is a scathing critique of the tech industry. And he’s called AI-generated writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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