> it should be possible for a regular person to own their computing

And regular persons will not care about this and will select a model with biases of anyone who they deem "works better for me at this one task that I needed".

Just like you said:

> previously, this happened with print media. Then it happened with the airwaves. It only makes logical sense that the trend continues with LLMs.

I wish it wasn't so, but I have no idea how to make people care about not being under someone's control.