Dave Eggers, author and McSweeney's founder, stood in front of roughly 200 OpenAI employees, at Sam Altman's invitation, and told them ChatGPT is catastrophic for educators and is silencing an entire generation of writers.
That framing matters. Altman invited the critic. Eggers did not soften the message. The Financial Times account of what he actually said inside those offices, word for word, is the reason to read this piece in full.
The story raises an unresolved question: what does it mean when a company's own CEO platforms its most direct critics, and nothing changes?
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