Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT is ‘stopping an entire generation’.

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to speak to about 200 OpenAI employees. The man has written countless booksdramas, pieces of journalism, were introduced McSweeney’s Profileand founded several schools and non-profits that support writers and artists. So one would expect them to be able to walk into the company’s offices and give advice on how to be more productive, or better in a number of areas. In fact, it seems that he joined the company. According to Financial TimesEggers told the staff:

“The consequences of ChatGPT on the lives of teachers are very dangerous. Whether you want to do it or not, you have made the life of every teacher more difficult than two years ago. So, let this be established … And this will prevent a whole generation or two.”

To be honest, Altman probably knew what he was getting himself into. Eggers’ best-selling book Line and a scathing critique of the tech industry. And it’s called AI-generated text “nonsense.”