The EU called ChatGPT a search engine. SEA’s AI startups should worry about what comes next

On 31 August, the European Commission did something no regulator had done before: it looked at a generative AI chatbot and decided it was, legally speaking, a search engine. ChatGPT was designated a “Very Large Online Search Engine” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), placing OpenAI’s flagship product in the same supervisory tier as […] The post The EU called ChatGPT a search engine. SEA’s AI startups should worry about what comes next appeared first on e27 .