The European Union's central data regulator said Thursday that it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Italy temporarily banned the programme last month over allegations its data-gathering broke privacy laws, and France's regulator said Thursday that it had opened a formal procedure after receiving five complaints. ChatGPT can generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts, and has proved itself capable of passing some tough exams.