OpenAI before ChatGPT (or even now) isn't even in the same ballpark with Google, MS etc as far as regulatory oversight goes.

Google has far too many services and products which are always touching the boundaries defined by the EU privacy laws. they trip the line with anything and the regulators can make it much harder/costlier for Google to do business in EU.

> OpenAI before ChatGPT (or even now) isn't even in the same ballpark with Google, MS etc as far as regulatory oversight goes.

That doesn’t matter for regulators.

Yes it does, because those companies have legal entities there.

As does OpenAI.

When the EU wrote the law targeting American Big Tech companies for compliance, OpenAI wasn't on their radar. Google was. So Google has to comply with a more onerous regime than OpenAI (for now).

No. It’s not only bound to specific companies.

The law was written to be objective, but it was written with a set of companies in mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553635

No judgement, this may be good for Europe in the long term.

Funny enough, OpenAI to this day violates EU requirements on price advertisement by charging VAT on top of the advertised price. They still owe me and every other customer in the EU ca. $3 VAT for every month I've had the ChatGPT subscription.