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

The Verge
By Terrence O’BrienJul 18, 2026, 4:54 pm273 ptsTop
Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival 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…

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