{"slug": "eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms", "title": "EU Will Reportedly Label ChatGPT and Roblox ‘Very Large Online Platforms’ (Derogatory)", "summary": "The European Union is preparing to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as 'very large online platforms' under the Digital Services Act, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The label would subject the companies to the strictest level of EU regulations, including supervisory fees of up to 0.05% of worldwide annual profit, due to their user bases exceeding 45 million EU-based monthly users. The European Commission declined to comment, while OpenAI and Roblox did not respond to requests.", "body_md": "The DSA has struck again and corporations are trembling. No, not the [Mamdani DSA](https://socialists.nyc/zohran-mayor-nyc-dsa/), the other DSA, the EU’s Digital Services Act, Europe’s legal framework for regulating the tech industry, which is also arguably the entire world’s [de facto legal framework for regulating the tech industry](https://cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archive/digital-services-act-and-brussels-effect-platform-content-moderation).\n\nThe targets today: Roblox, the gaming sandbox and online space where kids can interact, and where, perhaps too often, [adults can interact with kids](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-problem/), along with ChatGPT, the AI chatbot your landlord now uses to write you 1,000-word emails that paraphrase Immanuel Kant when they could just say “Don’t leave extension cords on the driveway. -Jeff.”\n\nThe EU’s executive arm is preparing to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms,” [according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg report](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgpt-roblox-to-fall-under-strictest-eu-rules-for-platforms). If you’re a tech platform, this label may sound like a cool trophy, but it’s actually an anchor around your neck because it exposes you to the top level of EU regulations and scrutiny.\n\nThe threshold to be considered for the designation is 45 million EU-based monthly users, and [other members](https://eaccny.com/news/chapternews/digital-services-act-eu-commission-designates-first-set-of-very-large-online-platforms-and-search-engines/) of the very large online platform club include the Amazon Store, TikTok, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and *of course* Zalando ([It’s European](https://www.zalando.com/)).\n\n[text of the law](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/digital-services-act-supervisory-fees-on-providers-of-very-large-online-platforms-and-search-engines.html):\n\n“Fees per service are calculated using a mathematical formula that takes into account the service’s number of users. The fee may not be greater than 0.05% of the service provider’s worldwide profit in the preceding financial year.”\n\nBloomberg reached out to the European Commission, OpenAI and Roblox. The commission declined, and OpenAI and Roblox didn’t answer the requests.\n\nThe DSA is perhaps most famous in the U.S. for coming into effect in 2022 and almost immediately clashing with Elon Musk amid his Twitter (later X) takeover around the same time. DSA regulators were informally inaugurated as the world’s platform cops in 2023 when the EU [went after X](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/technology/x-twitter-european-union-investigation.html) for failing to moderate types of content the DSA doesn’t tolerate, and for having design elements thought to be deceptive. X was eventually hit with a [$140 million fine, but appeals are ongoing](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5749310-elon-musk-x-appeals-eu-fine/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms", "canonical_source": "https://gizmodo.com/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms-derogatory-2000792681", "published_at": "2026-07-30 01:21:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 01:39:39.688804+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["European Union", "ChatGPT", "Roblox", "OpenAI", "European Commission", "Bloomberg", "Digital Services Act"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/eu-will-reportedly-label-chatgpt-and-roblox-very-large-online-platforms.jsonld"}}