Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

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Dave Eggers spoke to OpenAI staff about the negative impact of ChatGPT on education. He claimed that the tool has made teachers' lives significantly more challenging. Eggers expressed concern that students using ChatGPT to write would lose their ability to express their own voices. He described this phenomenon as silencing an entire generation or two.