Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

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Dave Eggers is launching initiatives like Art + Water to provide free arts education and mentorship, combating the high cost of MFA programs.
He founded the International Library of Youth Writing, featuring children's work and emphasizing tangible, original creative expression.
Eggers views AI as an existential threat to human creativity, warning that relying on machines for thought and writing will lead to species decline.
He criticizes the term 'content' for devaluing human-made art and is involved in lawsuits against AI firms for unauthorized use of his work.
Eggers writes his first drafts by hand on an offline computer and chooses to write on a boat in San Francisco Bay to avoid internet distractions.
His new novel, 'Contrapposto', explores the complexities of talent versus success and the relationship between artists over decades.
He participated in a discussion with Sam Altman of OpenAI about AI-written novels, asserting that only humans can create art.
Eggers believes there will be a countermovement against AI's dominance, similar to resistance against smartphones for children.

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