Nothing, and that's fine.
replyIf you are trying to stop monopolization, then having a large organization/government swarm the protocol gives them an effective monopoly. Being able to put a drop of clean water into an ocean of corruption is not really a working system.
replycost, and we can create policy (shocker)
replyalso what specifically are you worried about these 100 billion chatgpts doing?
Cost is irrelevant if they get more out of doing it than the processing costs.
replyDo they get more out of it than it costs, or are they still in the "people are just giving us money in the hopes that one day it turns a profit even though we're not charging nearly enough to make a profit" phase?
replyYou're describing the AI companies and their business model.
replyI'm answering to that cost being a problem regarding "what prevents 100 Billion ChatGPTs from using any protocol?" - the context I have in mind for the above being scammers, political manipulators, spam, and people like that using ChatGPT/LLMs to take advantage of various protocols for profit (and the 100 billion figure being a figure of speech meaning "very many").