The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’s argument is that the alternative label, Very Large Online Platform, carried safe harbour, the protection platform law gives companies hosting other people’s content, and that classifying a chatbot that way would have implied a model’s output is third-party material.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on Monday, imposing transparency and risk-mitigation duties comparable to those on Google and Bing, and exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue. Eliza Gkritsi and Pieter Haeck reported for Politico that the designation is narrow enough to leave the chatbot’s actual conversations largely uncovered.
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