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PublishedJuly 18, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

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Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect
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