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I don't know, power concentrates plenty in unregulated industries. Google has owned search for over two decades, and it's not like there's a ton of government r
by Hasu 4y ago
I don't know, power concentrates plenty in unregulated industries. Google has owned search for over two decades, and it's not like there's a ton of government regulation preventing anyone from starting a search engine. pPople have tried, they just haven't succeeded because Google was that much better and that much farther ahead, and they used their advantages to widen the gap. The same is true for advertising, it's not like the government was stopping anyone from competing with Google and Facebook, but other companies just couldn't get there.
I'm not sure that AI is going to look that different. Is there any reason to believe that if OpenAI wins the majority share, that any competition is going to be able to dethrone them?
We could imagine a world where the US government broke up big tech companies in the late 2000s or early 2010s, and it sure seems like that world would be in a much better position today, due exactly to increased competition. Instead we have a bunch of big companies that don't take risks or release ambitious new products because they're too busy trying to defend their moats.