Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff ChatGPT is harming education and silencing writers

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Author Dave Eggers was invited by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to speak to approximately 200 company employees last year. Rather than offering career advice, Eggers used the opportunity to criticize the company's flagship AI tool, ChatGPT. He told staff that the technology has had a catastrophic effect on educators and is silencing an entire generation of writers. Eggers, who founded McSweeney's and multiple nonprofits supporting writing and the arts, argued that the harm caused by ChatGPT was real regardless of intent.

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