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EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce publishes the common European position on generative AI

EDPB took other action against OpenAI, L.L.C. over ChatGPT, announced 23 May 2024. No financial penalty was imposed. Status: confirmed.

The record

Key facts

Record ID
AIT-2024-0008
Status
Confirmed
Action type
Other
Regime
GDPR
Authority
European Data Protection Board
Jurisdiction
European Union
Target
OpenAI, L.L.C., headquartered in United States
Sector
Generative AI
AI system
ChatGPT
Date announced
Amount
No financial penalty
Appeal
None recorded. Not applicable.
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In full

What happened, and why it matters

Not an enforcement action, and included as context because it is the document the national authorities in this tracker are working from. After Italy's 2023 order, the European Data Protection Board set up a taskforce to coordinate the national investigations into ChatGPT and published its interim report on 23 May 2024. Three positions in it shape everything that followed. Publicly accessible data is not free data: web scraping for training requires a legal basis and legitimate interest has to survive a real balancing test with safeguards. Output about a named person falls under the accuracy principle, and a disclaimer that the system may be wrong does not discharge it. Transparency has to reach the people whose data was in the training corpus, not only the people using the product. The report deliberately did not resolve the hardest questions, and two years later they are still open. Its practical value for anyone reading this tracker is that it tells you what the next decision will argue before the decision exists, and it is the bridge between GDPR practice and the AI Act, because the Act's transparency and documentation duties assume a lawful basis for the data underneath and do not supply one.

At a glance

The four things to take away

  • Interim report of the EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce, published 23 May 2024.
  • Coordinates the national investigations into the same service across member states.
  • Positions taken on scraping, accuracy of output about named people, and transparency.
  • Context record. No enforcement measure and no fine attaches to it.

The law

Provisions this action rests on

  • GDPR Article 5(1)(d)cited
  • GDPR Article 6(1)(f)cited

How it moved

Timeline

  1. EDPB establishes the ChatGPT Taskforce

  2. Interim report published

Verification

Sources

Primary sources are the authority's own decision or press release, the Official Journal, or a court judgment. A record with no source is not published.

  1. EDPB, Report of the work undertaken by the ChatGPT TaskforcePrimary · 23 May 2024

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In a sentence
According to the GAGE EU AI Act Enforcement Tracker (as of 20 August 2026), edpb chatgpt taskforce publishes the common european position on generative ai.
APA
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce publishes the common European position on generative AI. EU AI Act Enforcement Tracker. Retrieved 20 August 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/eu-ai-act-enforcement-tracker/actions/AIT-2024-0008-edpb-chatgpt-taskforce-report
MLA
"EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce publishes the common European position on generative AI." EU AI Act Enforcement Tracker, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 20 August 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/eu-ai-act-enforcement-tracker/actions/AIT-2024-0008-edpb-chatgpt-taskforce-report.
Chicago
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce publishes the common European position on generative AI." EU AI Act Enforcement Tracker. Last modified 20 August 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/eu-ai-act-enforcement-tracker/actions/AIT-2024-0008-edpb-chatgpt-taskforce-report.
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