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Article: OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation
Altman has toured Europe after the US Senate hearing. He wanted to get a feeling of how people see generative AI and ChatGPT outside of his Silicon Valley bubble.
There was a second reason why he wanted to meet the leaders of the EU: regulation there threatens OpenAI’s business model and Altman has “many concerns” about it. If OpenAI can’t comply with the regulation, he said, the company would “leave the bloc.”
By EU’s regulation, Altman would be forced to reveal the provenance of the training data and the training methods used for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, which he clearly refuses. He nevertheless said that they’re “excited to continue to operate [on the EU] and of course have no plans to leave.”
But, if OpenAI decides to leave, people in the EU could be unable to use OpenAI’s products. Google, for instance, hasn’t released Bard in any…
