[jamroom]

The article doesn't appear to say that OpenAI is a monopolist - it's more a conflict of interest:

   However, YC is also closely tied to OpenAI, which is now directly competing against Google on search. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman used to run YC, while OpenAI was the first group affiliated with YC Research.

[iwontberude]

Which is a strange statement because OpenAI is not directly competing against Google on search. They don’t have a public search engine and rely on Bing for search results — they do something greater and more broad than search. Conflating product categories to make this point is not effective for whatever argument they are making here.

[cableshaft]

ChatGPT is absolutely taking people away from Google. People are turning to that instead of a search engine for more and more things now.

Here's one article about it: https://www.techradar.com/tech/people-are-increasingly-swapp...

[JumpCrisscross]

> OpenAI is not directly competing against Google on search. They don’t have a public search engine

This is like the railroad arguing they don’t compete with trucks before promptly going bankrupt in the late 60s / early 70s.

[thinkingtoilet]

It competes because people like me use it for search. I would say I primarily use it for search.