France warns against killing a European ChatGPT – POLITICO

PARIS — France has a message: Don’t kneecap a potential future European ChatGPT with too much regulation. 

The European Parliament’s position on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act — a piece of legislation currently under negotiation — is too stringent and risks doing just that, France’s Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told POLITICO in an interview Monday. 

As an example, he pointed to Google’s decision not to launch its chatbot Bard…