OpenAI is not a monopoly and has numerous extremely large and well funded competitors such as Google (gemini), Meta (llama), and Alibaba (qwen), to say nothing of smaller startups like Anthropic. The blog post blindly asserts it's a monopoly because monopolies are bad.
Taylor Lorenz also insists that everyone continue masking and social distancing for Covid and that refusing to do so in 2024 is equivalent to denying AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. And she obsessively lies about her age to the extent that her actual birth year is listed as a range of plausible years on Wikipedia, since she's changed her statements repeatedly by wild margins. I think her compulsive, somewhat paranoid difficulty engaging with reality is important context when reading her (many) vague, unresearched, but extremely negative blog posts about tech.
Taylor Lorenz also insists that everyone continue masking and social distancing for Covid and that refusing to do so in 2024 is equivalent to denying AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. And she obsessively lies about her age to the extent that her actual birth year is listed as a range of plausible years on Wikipedia, since she's changed her statements repeatedly by wild margins. I think her compulsive, somewhat paranoid difficulty engaging with reality is important context when reading her (many) vague, unresearched, but extremely negative blog posts about tech.