Comment by UncleMeat

Yep. It is remarkably clear that AI chatbots take the existing open web, hide it behind a wall owned by a single institution, and provides the largest ever capacity for controlling public opinion in history. The fact that we are trending towards replacing the search experience (which does have plenty of its own problems, but not nearly as many) with this is going to concentrate such an enormous amount of power behind whoever wins this that we should be very concerned.