[nopurpose]

You could make same argument in "information superhighway" days, but it turned out to be the opposite: no company monopolised internet services, despite trying hard.

With so many companies in AI race it is already pretty competitive landscape and it doesnt seem likely to me that any of them can build deep enough moat to come ahead.

[direwolf20]

Internet services have been centralised into a few ISPs and a few websites everyone visits

[nopurpose]

a few? all sorts of websites and services are thriving on the Internet even after significant consolidation of attention social media caused. Not even close to a dystopian picture parent comment paints.