[Italy fines OpenAI 15 million euros for violating privacy regulations] Golden Finance reported that the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) announced on December 20 that after concluding an investigation into the use of personal data by generative artificial intelligence applications, it imposed a fine of 15 million euros (about 15.58 million U.S. dollars) on ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Garante said it found that OpenAI processed users' personal data in order to train ChatGPT without sufficient legal basis, violating the principle of transparency and relevant information obligations to users.