"The Death of the Middleman Let's think about that - the middle man. Google, TripAdvisor, the tour providers - right now these are websites, and they support t

"The Death of the Middleman Let's think about that - the middle man. Google, TripAdvisor, the tour providers - right now these are websites, and they support themselves by showing ads to users, or by partnering/commissions (e.g. TripAdvisor could receive revenue for directing users to day tours)." What is OpenAI if not another middleman. OpenAI does not produce its own "content". Like the other middlemen websites OpenAI relies on other peoples' content. Like the other middlemen websites who might manipulate the presentation, e.g., "ranking" of the content, OpenAI can manpulate the composition of the output. These middlemen can perform such manipulation for whatever reasons they publicly claim, e.g., eliminate bias, perform censorship and/or other, commercial reasons. Meanwhile the so-called "tech" company middleman does not disclose how this might be done. The "algorithm" is not disclosed. The operations of the middleman are non-transparent. The source and destination parties are not in control of the content. The middleman is in control.