戴夫·艾格斯对 OpenAI 员工称：ChatGPT 正在「让整整一代人失语」

去年，萨姆·奥尔特曼邀请作家戴夫·艾格斯给大约 200 名 OpenAI 员工做了一场演讲。他撰写了无数小说、剧本、新闻报道，创办了 McSweeney’s，并创立了多所学校和公益组织来支持作家和更广泛的艺术事业。因此，人们或许以为他会走进公司办公室，分享如何保持超高产出，或如何在多个领域出类拔萃的诀窍。但他却显然毫不留情地抨击了这家公司。据《金融时报》报道，艾格斯这样告诉员工：

“ChatGPT 对教育工作者生活的影响是灾难性的。不管你们是否有意为之，你们让每位教师的工作比两年前难了无数倍。所以，好好想想吧……如果学生用它来写作，那是最大的悲剧，他们将永远学不会写作。他们的声音被偷走了。他们再也不能说出自己的真相，讲述自己的故事。而这，正在让整整一代人，甚至两代人失语。”

平心而论，奥尔特曼很可能清楚自己要面对的是什么。艾格斯的畅销小说《圆圈》是对科技行业的尖锐批判。而且，他曾将 AI 生成的文字称为“拼凑出来的胡言乱语”。

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 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 , 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.”