EU to classify ChatGPT and Roblox as very large online platforms
The European Union will label OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the Digital Services Act after they each exceed 45 million monthly EU users.
According to an insider, the European Union’s executive branch will soon designate OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the gaming platform Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the Digital Services Act, once each surpasses the 45-million-user threshold in the bloc. The classification, expected by August, obliges the firms to submit detailed risk-mitigation plans, publish transparency reports and pay a yearly fee to the European Commission, with penalties of up to 6 % of worldwide sales for breaches.
The DSA also seeks to protect minors by tightening content-moderation and advertising transparency, areas where Roblox has recently tightened controls. Neither OpenAI nor Roblox have commented, and a Commission spokesperson declined to speak. The designation adds to a series of EU probes that have already fined X and Alibaba for violations of the same rules.
Why it matters
EU enforcement of the DSA expands to major AI and gaming services, raising compliance costs and shaping online safety standards.
How the sides frame it
MODERATE AGREEMENTBoth camps report the EU’s plan to label ChatGPT and Roblox as very large online platforms, but the right-leaning coverage stresses the new compliance burdens, penalties and child-protection measures, while the centrist coverage sticks to the basic facts of the designation and the user-threshold criteria.
CENTER
Centrist coverage presents the classification as a straightforward factual development, noting the user-threshold and listing comparable platforms.
RIGHT
Right-leaning coverage frames the move as a regulatory crackdown, emphasizing the imposed risk-mitigation plans, transparency reporting, fees, penalties and minors-protection rationale.
The right emphasises
- obliges firms to submit detailed risk-mitigation plans
- requires transparency reports, a yearly fee and penalties up to 6 % of worldwide sales
- aims to protect minors by tightening content-moderation and advertising transparency
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