alt Hacker NewsBut who are "we"? The society, the government, the regulator, or the consumer?
I don't see any of such entity would solve that problem. The government and regulator are in OpenAI and Anthropic's pocket, and I don't trust them a single bit on coming up with regulations. The consumers don't care; they just need something smart and cheap. And the society doesn't work either: each person is too busy fighting for their own survival rather than changing the system.
People thought the same in the guilded age: standard oil is too big, Edison and Westinghouse already have the electric market captured and have captured political power. It was a similar transformation in society. If all we do is follow the same playbook America did then we’d be in a better position that the current approach.
There are clear anti-trust mechanisms to prevent market capture and the emergence of asymmetric power. Go back and see how much nashing of teeth Lina Khan triggered in SV when she started to enforce antitrust law and then compare it to what the Pinkerton agency was doing in the transition from the guilded age to the progressive era.
There is a vocal segment of SV that wants the return of the guilded age. Marc Andreessen as said that explicitly. Those of us in SV that value free markets and recognize that the progressive era actually saved markets from their natural tendency to self destruct when winners capture markets and destroy competition that provides the incentive to innovate and drives the price setting function for efficiency.