nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/887f92f3bcf01a98 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260412s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/887f92f3bcf01a98 doi eng 342 23 Bassini, Marco Author aut Beyond Intermediaries - Generative AI in Search of Their Legal Status Bassini, Marco Verfassungsblog 2026-04-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Recent investigations into the dissemination of illegal content generated by Grok have exposed a structural gap in the EU’s legislative framework: while the Digital Services Act equips the European Commission with far-reaching powers over large online platforms, it does not clearly capture generative AI systems per se. As a result, the Commission may be able to act against platforms integrating such systems (such as X), but not necessarily against the systems themselves (such as Grok). This asymmetry raises a broader question that has increasingly gained attention in policy and academic debates: can generative AI applications be brought within the scope of the DSA? CC BY-SA 4.0 AI DSA Digital Services Act Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (DE-588)1332665853 gnd Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz Palumbo, Andrea Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/genai-dsa/ raw object