Dave Eggers 对 OpenAI 员工称 ChatGPT 对教育工作者影响"灾难性"

去年，Sam Altman 邀请作家 Dave Eggers 为大约 200 名 OpenAI 员工做了一场演讲。这位作家写过无数小说：/2013/8/15/4623732/dave-eggers-the-circle-initial-synopsis，编写过剧本、新闻作品，创办了 McSweeney’s：/art-club/660587/mcsweeneys-quarterly-78-vietnamese-diaspora-cigar-box，并创立了多个支持作家和广泛艺术的学校及非营利组织。因此，人们可能会期待他走进公司的办公室，提供关于如何高产或如何在多个领域出类拔萃的建议。然而，显然他直接对公司进行了抨击。根据《金融时报》的报道：https://www.ft.com/content/1c833e7b-3cba-4b87-8b45-33d6c2bd468e?syn-25a6b1a6=1，Eggers 对员工说：

“ChatGPT 对教育工作者生活的影响是灾难性的。无论你是否有意，过去两年来，你使每一位教师的生活都变得无比困难。所以，先让这个事实沉淀一下……如果学生用它来写作，这是最悲惨的事情，他们将永远学不会写作。他们的声音被夺走了。他们将永远无法说出自己的真实想法，讲述自己的故事。这等于是让整整一代甚至两代人被沉默。”

公平地说，Altman 可能早就知道自己会面临什么。Eggers 畅销小说《The Circle》对科技行业进行了尖锐的批评。他还称 AI 生成的写作是“拼凑的废话”。

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels：/2013/8/15/4623732/dave-eggers-the-circle-initial-synopsis, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s：/art-club/660587/mcsweeneys-quarterly-78-vietnamese-diaspora-cigar-box, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices and offer tips on being relentlessly prolific, or how to excel in multiple fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. According to the Financial Times：https://www.ft.com/content/1c833e7b-3cba-4b87-8b45-33d6c2bd468e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 , Eggers told the staff:

“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… 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.”

To be fair, Altman likely knew what he was getting himself into. Eggers’ best-selling novel The Circle is a scathing critique of the tech industry. And he’s called AI-generated writing “pastiche nonsense.”