Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff: ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation'

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers.

Posted by GalaxiePete at 08:32 AM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Dave Eggers? They invited the same Dave Eggers who wrote a prophetic novel about the evils of surveillance tech and wearables and the social media panopticon like a full half-decade before anybody else was worried about them? That's on them

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-- G. Willow Wilson (@gwillow.me) 10:47 PM Â· Jul 21, 2026

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"If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they'll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They'll never have the ability to say their truth and tell their own story. And that's silencing an entire generation or two."

Well said.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-07-20 02:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 4

Students are definitely using it to compose. Unless they have a top tier Senior Honors Thesis nobody is reading what they write except the TAs.

#2 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-23 09:52 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

My mom went to a one room school K-12. She could beat most of today's college students for the ability to do math, compose, grammar, etc.

I'm glad I learned "old school" with textbooks and encyclopedias.

#3 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-07-23 06:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Hilarious. Seriously, have you even been to college?

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-24 11:33 AM | Reply

When you went, did the Internet exist yet? No. Get current.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-07-24 11:53 AM | Reply

When you went, did the Internet exist yet? No. Get current.