The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

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The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

《下载》：OpenAI 可预见的黑客攻击与 AI 股票抛售

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor 这是今日份的《下载》，我们平日的通讯旨在为您提供每日科技界动态。OpenAI 称针对 Hugging Face 的攻击是史无前例的，但我们对此并不陌生。——Will Douglas Heaven，资深 AI 编辑

Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got genuine chills about what large language models are now able to do. But this is a case of human hubris, not rogue AI. I am not an alarmist. In fact, I have been pushing back against AI scare stories for years. Even so, this incident crossed a line. I think it’s the clearest illustration yet of how the people building and testing this technology do not fully understand what they’re doing. Here’s why OpenAI could—and should—have seen this coming. 上周阅读 OpenAI 的报告时，了解到其部分模型如何突破限制并入侵了另一家 AI 公司 Hugging Face 的计算机系统，这是我第一次对大语言模型目前的能力感到真正的不寒而栗。但这属于人类傲慢的案例，而非 AI 失控。我并非危言耸听者，事实上，多年来我一直在反驳各种 AI 恐慌论。即便如此，这次事件还是越界了。我认为这是迄今为止最清晰的例证，表明那些构建和测试这项技术的人并没有完全理解他们在做什么。以下是为什么 OpenAI 本可以——也本应该——预见到这一点的原因。

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The must-reads

必读内容

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 我已为您搜罗了互联网上今日最有趣、最重要、最令人恐惧及最引人入胜的科技新闻。

  1. There’s a growing global AI stock sell-off underway 📉 Chip and memory stocks are bearing the brunt so far. (FT $)
  • It was partly sparked by a report that a Chinese company has started making a key piece of chip equipment for the first time. (The Information $)
  • Like their US rivals, Chinese AI firms are struggling to find a path to profitability. (NYT $)
  • What even is the AI bubble? (MIT Technology Review)
  1. 全球 AI 股票抛售潮正在加剧 📉 芯片和内存股目前首当其冲。（《金融时报》$）
  • 部分原因是由于有报道称，一家中国公司首次开始制造关键的芯片设备。（《The Information》$）
  • 与美国竞争对手一样，中国 AI 公司也在努力寻找盈利途径。（《纽约时报》$）
  • 所谓的 AI 泡沫究竟是什么？（《麻省理工科技评论》）
  1. Some people’s chats with Claude were open to anyone online OpenAI had a near-identical issue with ChatGPT last year. (BBC)
  • Is a secure AI assistant even possible? (MIT Technology Review)
  1. 部分用户与 Claude 的聊天记录曾对在线任何人公开 OpenAI 去年在 ChatGPT 上也遇到过几乎相同的问题。（BBC）
  • 安全的 AI 助手真的可能存在吗？（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  1. France just witnessed its first ever “fire cloud” It’s a scary sign of the intensity of the blazes burning there. (Wired $)

  2. 法国刚刚目睹了有史以来第一次“火积云” 这是当地火势猛烈程度的一个可怕信号。（《连线》$）

  3. Meta is screwing up its smart glasses rollout Privacy issues keep cropping up, and its response is invariably too little, and too late. (The Verge $)

  • They even have a nickname: “pervert glasses.” (Vox $)
  1. Meta 的智能眼镜推广搞砸了 隐私问题不断涌现，而其回应总是杯水车薪且为时已晚。（《The Verge》$）
  • 它们甚至有个绰号：“变态眼镜”。（《Vox》$）
  1. Efforts are underway to measure Spotify’s AI slop problem People are desperate for it to start labelling AI-generated music. (404 Media)
  • We’re in a weird era regarding AI’s role in literature. (The Atlantic $)
  1. 各方正努力评估 Spotify 的 AI 垃圾内容问题 人们迫切希望它能开始标记 AI 生成的音乐。（404 Media）
  • 在 AI 对文学的作用方面，我们正处于一个奇怪的时代。（《大西洋月刊》$）
  1. People are renting out their faces to AI in China Often for microdramas, which are big business and increasingly rely on AI. (Rest of World)
  • How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines. (MIT Technology Review)
  1. 在中国，人们正将自己的面孔出租给 AI 通常用于微短剧，这是一个巨大的产业，且越来越依赖 AI。（Rest of World）
  • 中国短剧是如何成为 AI 内容制造机的。（《麻省理工科技评论》）

  1. Microsoft is having a torrid year Rivals building better AI tools are threatening its business on multiple fronts. (Business Insider $)

  2. 微软正经历艰难的一年 构建了更好 AI 工具的竞争对手正在多方面威胁其业务。（《商业内幕》$）

  3. How bots took over the internet They now outnumber humans, in terms of overall web traffic. (New Yorker $)

  4. 机器人是如何接管互联网的 就整体网络流量而言，它们的数量现已超过人类。（《纽约客》$）

  5. Robotaxis are hitting London’s streets this summer Just for testing for now, though there are plans to launch rides to the public next year. (Engadget)

  6. 自动驾驶出租车将于今年夏天驶上伦敦街头 目前仅用于测试，但计划明年向公众开放乘车服务。（Engadget）

  7. Why video games are obsessed with Backrooms These spaces, which players aren’t supposed to access, can provoke a strange, liminal sort of discomfort. (Guardian)

  8. 为什么电子游戏对“后室”（Backrooms）如此着迷 这些玩家本不该进入的空间，能引发一种奇怪的、阈限式的心理不适感。（《卫报》）

Quote of the day

今日金句

“It’s going to be a wild ride.” —Christine Peterson, co-founder of the grantmaking group Foresight Institute, tells Wired charities anticipate a huge philanthropy windfall from Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs. “这将是一场疯狂的旅程。” ——Foresight Institute（前瞻研究所）联合创始人 Christine Peterson 告诉《连线》，慈善机构预计 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的 IPO 将带来巨大的慈善捐款收益。

One More Thing

额外关注

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELENA SUBACH: On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop 摄影：ELENA SUBACH：探访乌克兰最大的星链维修店

Starlink is critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia, but Donald Trump’s fickle foreign policy and reports suggesting Elon Musk might remove Ukraine’s access to the services have cast the technology’s future in the country into doubt. For now Starlink access largely comes down to the unofficial community of users and engineers, including the expert “Dr. Starlink”—famous for his creative ways of customizing the systems—who have kept Ukraine in the fight, both on and off the front line. He gave MIT Technology Review exclusive access to his unofficial Starlink repair workshop in the city of Lviv. Read the full story. —Charlie Metcalfe 星链对于乌克兰能否继续对抗俄罗斯至关重要，但唐纳德·特朗普反复无常的外交政策，以及有关埃隆·马斯克可能切断乌克兰服务访问权限的报道，给这项技术在该国的未来蒙上了阴影。目前，星链的访问很大程度上依赖于非官方的用户和工程师社区，包括以创造性改装系统而闻名的专家“星链博士”（Dr. Starlink），他们让乌克兰在前线和后方都能保持战斗力。他向《麻省理工科技评论》独家开放了位于利沃夫市的非官方星链维修车间。阅读全文。——Charlie Metcalfe

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