Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators
Here&#x27;s my hypothesis of what is going on:<p>1. Europe can&#x27;t do computers. This is bad for them, because foreign companies, who can do computers, make money in Europe and beat out the local competition.<p>2. But the EU has discovered that it can extract money by threatening to ban the foreign companies for reasons of privacy, data protection etc.<p>3. Since the EU is a valuable market, the companies accept the fines as a price of doing business.<p>4. Italy is getting in early by firing a shot across the bows of OpenAI, which is not yet a huge moneymaker, but may be in future.