ChatGPT creator OpenAI threatens to leave the EU over AI Act

OpenAI's Sam Altman wants no business with the European Union if its laws are too overbearing. At a conference in London yesterday (May 24), the founder and CEO of the company behind the vastly popular ChatGPT said OpenAI would leave the bloc if it is unable to comply with the region's artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, which are currently a work in progress. Advertisement As part of its rule-making, the EU is seeking to implement transparency measures in so-called general purpose AI. "Generative foundation models, like GPT, would have to comply with additional transparency requirements, like disclosing that the content was…