PANews reported on December 23 that according to the Global Network, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) recently issued an announcement, announcing that after the investigation into the use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application ChatGPT, it decided to impose a fine of 15 million euros (about 15.58 million US dollars) on OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. According to the Garante, after an in-depth investigation, they found that OpenAI had violated regulations when processing users' personal data.