Famous writer Dave Eggers: ChatGPT is "silencing a generation"

Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invited well-known author Dave Eggers to speak to the company’s roughly 200 employees. As the author of several best-selling novels, screenplays, and journalism, as well as the founder of a literary and arts education nonprofit and McSweeney Publishing, Eggers might have been expected to share experiences in productive writing or cross-disciplinary development. However, Eggers delivered a sharp attack on the company during his speech, according to the Financial Times.

Eggers made it clear that ChatGPT has had a disastrous impact on educators. Whatever OpenAI’s original intentions, the company has made teachers’ jobs much more difficult than they were two years ago. He emphasized that it would be a huge tragedy if students relied on artificial intelligence to complete their writing, because they would lose the opportunity to learn to write. Eggers warned that this would lead to students losing their voices, permanently losing the ability to express their true selves and tell their personal stories, and could even lead to an entire generation or two becoming "voiceless" as a result.

In fact, Ultraman may have anticipated the challenges when he invited Eggers. The best-selling novel "The Circle" written by Eggers is a harsh criticism of the technology industry, and he himself once called the text generated by AI "patchwork nonsense".