alt Hacker NewsAI is a very competitive market where consumers are getting the product for much less than it costs. This does not seem like an area where the government needs to butt in.
Attention would be better spent on long list of other poorly behaved companies: cable ISP monopolies, health insurance companies, home insurance companies, etc.
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Bear with me here: we could do all of them.
You can get these companies under control. You just have to, y'know, try.
That is only one aspect of Ai. There are a whole bunch of people who are addicted to the Ai companions. Reminds me of Big Sugar, who sponsored junk science and lobbied politicians, making salt and fat the bad guts, knowing sugar is likely worse... managing to still largely fly under the radar unlike Big Tobacco/Oil.
My hope is that we start treating Big Ai like Big Social, but before they and their dark patterns have become ubiquitous
That's basically the Amazon argument. But it too needs to be addressed
Why wouldn't the government have incentive to intervene to end a market inefficiency like the one you described?