The pause in developing large-scale AI models called for in an Open Letter is stirring up tempers and opposition, for example from open-source advocates. public infrastructure for training accessible state-of-the-art large AI models, so that independent experts and society have unfiltered access to basic technology and open alternatives to powerful models like GPT-4 emerge – it would be risky for humanity if the world's population depended on opaque commercial offerings from a few corporations with monopoly positions via a single API, Christoph Schuhmann told heise Developer. 300-page statement is publicly available as a PDF document (an Opinion in German), the topic: "Human and Machine – Challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence" (English summary)