Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices...
Key points
- Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers.
- 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: Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ The author used Sam Altmans invitation to give a speech as an opportunity to lash out.
What happened
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. 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: Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ The author used Sam Altmans invitation to give a speech as an opportunity to lash out. The author used Sam Altmans invitation to give a speech as an opportunity to lash out. 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.