Very nice piece on how firms can build new AI monopolies through context lock-in.
The solution? Open protocols that enable context portability - letting users take their personalized AI data (conversations, preferences, work context) between services.
This feels like the kind of regulation we could all get behind - promoting competition while protecting user choice.
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