Summary
The Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine after OpenAI reported more than 45 million average monthly EU users. The designation brings additional systemic-risk, auditing and data-access obligations.
Why it matters
It extends large-platform regulation to a generative AI service and creates a precedent for supervising chatbots as information intermediaries.
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