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How ChatGPT might force the EU to rethink its gatekeeper rules

By Luca Bertuzzi ( June 23, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Comment) -- With ChatGPT moving toward potential regulation under a key EU law governing digital services, its designation as the first standalone AI service could also open the door to strict curbs on digital gatekeepers. If designated, OpenAI could face obligations around user choice, data separation, and non-preferential treatment. However, the household chatbot might be integrating into different types of services, highlighting discrepancies between the twin tech laws — the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act — and the inadequacy of trying to put a fast-moving technology into fixed categories.OpenAI’s household chatbot is facing a potential designation under the EU’s rulebook for online intermediaries, which could also push the European Commission to regulate it under another EU law targeting dominant digital companies known as gatekeepers....

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