Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

针对 OpenAI 的抗议活动愈发具有创意

Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?, a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture “shows OpenAI’s leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.”

来自湾区一家工作室的两名艺术家周二在旧金山 OpenAI 开发者大会的公共入口处，展示了一件名为《冰山是什么？》（What Iceberg?）的桌子大小的装置艺术。根据对该作品的描述，这座 5 英尺高的雕塑“展示了 OpenAI 的领导者和投资者带着难以想象的财富逃离一艘正在下沉的船，而其他人则被迫承担人工智能带来的代价。”

One of the co-creators of the piece, a man in his “late 30s” who gave his name as “Kevin,” said that he and members of the Berkeley-based Odd Friend Studio spent the last five days working to build What Iceberg? out of papier mâché, cardboard, paint—and a repurposed table.

该作品的共同创作者之一，一位自称“凯文”（Kevin）、年龄在“30 多岁后期”的男子表示，他和位于伯克利的“怪异朋友工作室”（Odd Friend Studio）的成员们花了过去五天时间，用纸糊、纸板、颜料以及一张改造过的桌子制作了这件作品。

“I think most people focus on this concept of the iceberg,” Kevin told Ars. “The inevitable collision—I think it’s a very obvious metaphor. I think the real metaphor is that this AI world we’re living in is much like the Titanic. There was always a contingency plan for the rich and wealthy. The rest of us? The workers of the lower decks? We are the ones that are going to suffer the consequences.”

“我认为大多数人关注的是冰山这个概念，”凯文告诉 Ars。“不可避免的碰撞——我认为这是一个非常明显的隐喻。我认为真正的隐喻是，我们所处的这个人工智能世界就像泰坦尼克号。富人和权贵总是有应急计划。而我们其他人呢？底层甲板的工人们？我们才是将要承担后果的人。”

Kevin told Ars that while the piece cost relatively little in monetary value, it had a different kind of cost to make. “The cost here is time,” he said. “Doing everything by hand, creating the structure, taking as few shortcuts as possible, and doing this in a really quick time period is a lot of the real cost. In so many ways, that is the cost of art. Good art and intentional art—stuff that makes sense and craftsmanship—that’s a function of time.”

凯文告诉 Ars，虽然这件作品在金钱价值上成本相对较低，但其制作过程有着另一种成本。“这里的成本是时间，”他说。“一切亲手完成、构建结构、尽可能少走捷径，并且在非常短的时间内完成，这才是真正的成本所在。在很多方面，这就是艺术的代价。好的艺术和有深意的艺术——那些有意义且体现匠心的作品——是时间的函数。”

“Creativity is our birthright, and when someone sells you a shortcut to escape that—that’s insane to me. In some ways, it is the antithesis of a lot of bad algorithmically generated art. Maybe people will tell us it’s bad art? Who cares! Making and creating is something that AI claims that it does, but it doesn’t.”

“创造力是我们与生俱来的权利，当有人向你兜售逃避创造力的捷径时——这在我看来是疯狂的。在某种程度上，它是许多糟糕的算法生成艺术的对立面。也许有人会说这是糟糕的艺术？谁在乎呢！制造和创造是人工智能声称自己能做的事，但它实际上做不到。”

OpenAI, as one of the world’s largest AI companies, has been the target of numerous other protests in recent months and years. Last week, for instance, people protested against OpenAI at its New York City offices. On Monday, training for OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, was stopped over safety concerns. Also on Monday, the company apologized for accessing Australian government websites “in ways that we were not authorized to.” Meanwhile, the state of Florida asked a court to halt OpenAI’s development, calling it an “unacceptably risky product.” OpenAI did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment on Tuesday morning.

作为全球最大的人工智能公司之一，OpenAI 在近几个月和几年里一直是多次抗议活动的目标。例如，上周有人在 OpenAI 的纽约办公室外进行抗议。周一，由于安全担忧，OpenAI 最新模型 GPT-6.1 Astra 的训练被叫停。同样在周一，该公司就“以未经授权的方式”访问澳大利亚政府网站一事道歉。与此同时，佛罗里达州要求法院停止 OpenAI 的开发工作，称其为“风险不可接受的产品”。截至周二上午，OpenAI 未能立即回应 Ars 的置评请求。