To be fair, there is always someone on the bottom. It just historically hasn't been people we cared about. That really says more about us than it says about AI. The time to complain about these power asymmetries was prior to them affecting us. Now it just sounds like garden variety sour grape hypocrisy.
Not saying there aren't good points. Only pointing out that many, many people can all view the consequences of this dynamic differently.
The only people who view this favorably are people at the top. People near the bottom perhaps feel disdain for people in the middle but that is misdirected because people at the top always were the ones in control. AI hasn't changed that dynamic.
I am replying to the parent comment, but I too get that this petition is being signed onto by people at openAI specifically because they already made it with GPT-4. They definitely would not sign on to it if their (arbitrary) threshold for what to stop doing AI research with was a tool at a GPT-3 or GPT-3.5 level or higher or it included GPT-4 in their threshold, and not merely beyond it.
