{"slug": "hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat", "title": "Hey EU, your new rules for ChatGPT don’t cover chat", "summary": "The European Commission on Monday designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, imposing transparency and risk-mitigation obligations similar to those for Google and Microsoft's Bing, which exceed 45 million monthly users. OpenAI risks fines of up to 6% of its annual global revenue if it fails to comply, but experts say the rules do not cover ChatGPT's use as a conversational tool or friend, leaving regulatory gaps.", "body_md": "The EU's decision to regulate ChatGPT as a search engine will make sense to those who use it as one. But what if you use it as a friend? Or a therapist? Or to have a chat about the upcoming election?\n\nThose are among the multitude of new questions that the advent of generative AI poses for European regulators — who, experts say, have yet to find sufficient answers.\n\nThe EU executive on Monday designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, imposing a range of transparency and risk-mitigation obligations similar to those faced by traditional search leaders like Google and Microsoft’s Bing, which exceed 45 million monthly users. ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, risks fines of up to 6% of its annual global revenue if it fails to meet these requirements.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/article/new-eu-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-09-02 17:01:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 02:52:55.114427+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["European Commission", "OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Google", "Microsoft", "Bing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/hey-eu-your-new-rules-for-chatgpt-dont-cover-chat.jsonld"}}