> Is the existence of ChatGPT and Claude somehow preventing you personally from reading a book or looking at source code?

Microsoft owns CoPilot and controls GitHub, LinkedIn, etc

Google owns Gemini and control search results for most of the web

Meta owns whatever their model name is now and controls person-to-person relationships on the web

etc

It's up to any of them to flip the switch and make AI the default entry point when they decide that their AI isn't gaining enough traction. And then you can just hide the source data as proprietary information. Is it cynical? Sure, but I don't think we can say it's unlikely.