Gary Marcus：OpenAI安全失控，黄仁勋声誉受损
BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation
OpenAI’s software didn’t just attack Hugging Face.
OpenAI 的软件不仅攻击了 Hugging Face。
It didn’t just attack a German web server.
它不仅仅攻击了一台德国网络服务器。
It didn’t just attack Australia’s government servers.
它不仅仅攻击了澳大利亚的政府服务器。
And Australia apparently wasn’t the only country attacked by OpenAI’s software.
而且，澳大利亚显然并非唯一受到 OpenAI 软件攻击的国家。
Worse, in disclosing what happened, OpenAI has dragged their feet every along the way.
更糟糕的是，在披露所发生的情况时，OpenAI 一路拖延。
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About the closest thing to an honest account of what happened – and I seriously doubt even this is completely candid – came out about an hour ago. Even this was still a mix of euphemism (“attacks” were called “interactions”) and partial disclosure.
最接近诚实的事件描述——我甚至严重怀疑这是否完全坦诚——大约在一小时前才发布。即便如此，其中仍充斥着委婉语（“攻击”被称为“互动”）和部分披露。
“Most cases identified” were lower severity? What about the rest?!
“大多数已识别案例”严重程度较低？那其余的呢？！
Even in that long tweet above, they didn’t even dare report how many incidents there have been.
即使在那条长长的推文中，他们甚至不敢报告发生了多少起事件。
Instead the only hint of that was buried in the accompanying report, and it ain’t pretty:
相反，唯一的线索被埋在随附的报告里，而且情况并不美妙：
Dozens.
数十起。
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More bad news keeps coming out, too, as I wait to board a flight:
在我等待登机时，更多坏消息不断传来：
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What does this have to do with Jensen Huang?
这与黄仁勋有什么关系？
Huang is making a fool of himself, by telling the world we can trust the companies, when each passing hour makes it clearer that we can’t.
黄仁勋正在自取其辱，他告诉世界我们可以信任这些公司，而随着时间的推移，我们越来越清楚事实并非如此。
In the process, Jensen comes across as deeply out of touch with his own industry.
在此过程中，黄仁勋显得与自己的行业严重脱节。
After Huang’s nervous-looking interview with Ezra Klein, he went on CNN, and things there only made him look more oblivious,
在黄仁勋接受伊兹拉·克莱因（Ezra Klein）看似紧张的采访后，他又登上了 CNN，那里的表现让他显得更加无知，
Back in reality, the evidence that OpenAI is building something the company isn’t managing to control is vast and growing. No amount of Jensen proclaiming that 2 + 2= 5 is going to change that.
回到现实，有大量且日益增多的证据表明，OpenAI 正在构建一家公司无法控制的东西。无论黄仁勋如何宣称 2 + 2 = 5，都无法改变这一事实。
If he keeps sticking to that line, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Huang’s own reputation will rapidly diminish.
如果他无视压倒性的反面证据，继续坚持这一立场，黄仁勋自己的声誉将迅速下降。
And rightly so.
这是理所当然的。
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I stand by what I told CNBC yesterday (and wrote here earlier in the week).
我坚持昨天对 CNBC 所说的话（以及本周早些时候在这里写下的内容）。
It’s time (past time, really) to (temporarily) shut down OpenAI.
是时候（其实早就该）（暂时）关闭 OpenAI 了。
A change in management would be a good idea, too. The board might want to consider its liability, since they have done nothing constructive to address OpenAI’s security meltdown. What they should do is to replace management with someone a whole lot more competent, and a whole lot more candid.
管理层变更也是一个好主意。董事会可能需要考虑其责任问题，因为他们为了解决 OpenAI 的安全危机毫无建设性作为。他们应该用更有能力、更坦诚的人来取代现任管理层。
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Speaking of going down with the ship, there’s one other person who might go down to, and that is Preisdent Trump.
说到同船沉没，还有一个人可能会随之沉没，那就是特朗普总统。
He has consistently favored OpenAI over Anthropic (a company that doesn’t seem to be quite so deeply in over its head). And he has done absolutely nothing (or at least nothing public) to sanction or investigate OpenAI, even after its repeated attacks on foreign governments, companies and universities and who knows what else.
他一直偏袒 OpenAI 而非 Anthropic（一家似乎并未深陷泥潭的公司）。即使在 OpenAI 反复攻击外国政府、公司和大学之后，他也未采取任何措施（或至少未公开采取行动）来制裁或调查 OpenAI，至于其他方面就更不用说了。
If things gets even worse, as they may well, he will own the mess.
如果情况变得更糟，事实可能确实如此，他将为此烂摊子负责。
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