The metaverse, shared digital worlds accessible through the Internet, is the subsequent digital market to draw regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager mentioned on Thursday.
The metaverse has come into sharper focus since Facebook modified its title to Meta Platforms two years in the past to mirror its guess on the brand new sector because the successor to the cell Internet.
That transfer has in flip triggered issues about Meta’s attainable dominance. Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft are additionally energetic in generative synthetic intelligence that the business sees as the brand new vibrant spot.
“It’s already time for us to start asking what healthy competition would look like in the metaverse,” Vestager mentioned a convention organised by Keystone Strategy.
Vestager requested whether or not it could change the equation when there are competing digital realities and language AI fashions like ChatGPT.
“Do we need to do more on something new? And obviously we have started that work,” she mentioned.
She mentioned regulatory scrutiny of digital markets has been escalating worldwide within the final three years.
“And there’s a much wider political debate that digital markets need careful attention. I think all jurisdictions are moving forward in one form or another,” Vestager mentioned.
She mentioned some antitrust enforcers had been extra superior than others.
“We are moving at different speeds. We will not get the same legal framework. And maybe that is not a bad thing. Because that will allow us to hone our toolkits in the process of mutual learning,” Vestager mentioned.
Âİ Thomson Reuters 2023
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