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Do Italy and Germany Want ChatGPT Stopped?

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  Italy leaped like a frog in a jumping contest to find a pretext to ban ChatGPT. https://wamu.org/story/23/03/31/chatgpt-is-temporarily-banned-in-italy-amid-an-investigation-into-data-collection/ Now there are rumors that Germany may follow suit. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/germany-chatgpt-considers-following-italy-banning-chatgpt-openai-ai-artificial-intelligence-101058703.html Based on feedback I have from Draft2Digital, which has sales sites in the EU and other parts of the world, I suspect many countries are thinking of jumping on the techno-panic. This would make me laugh it weren't so stupid. It immediately put me in mind of the Inquistion's five hundred year war agains the invention of the printing press and book burnings that followed.  Yes, it is that stupid, and it will work exactly as well. In short, it will drag behind any country or region that attempts, while the countries that embrace the technology will surge into the cultural lead. When I started looking up de...