Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
The Verge Terrence O’Brien
Author Dave Eggers spoke to approximately 200 OpenAI staff members and criticized ChatGPT for harming educators and silencing student writers. Eggers, who has founded schools and nonprofits supporting writers, called the effect on educators' lives catastrophic. The criticism highlights concerns about AI language models' impact on writing education and student development.
Why it matters
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 […]