I think you've drawn the wrong conclusions from the history of the web.

The web started out idealistic, and became what it did because of underregulated market forces.

The same thing will happen to ai.

First, a cool new technology that is a bit dubious. Then a consolidation, even if or while local models proliferate. Then degraded quality as utility is replaced with monetization of responses, except in an llm you wont have the ability to either block ads or understand the honesty of the response.