i've seen a lot of buzz around such tools in the italian Linkedin space, it was either praised as the ultimate tool to automate jobs or feared it would leave unemployed a lot of office workers.
i understand both sides and can confidently say that this ban was made for the latter concern; the italian job space revolves so much around bullshit employment practices (unpaid internships, long term employment for useless tasks), that an action like that is somewhat understandable, as these tools would render their job either just a useless chore or result in firing.
and as the market is heavily controlled and protectionist of its workers, even if it means employing people for useless jobs (as long as they are paid almost pennies, and their salary doesn't grow) ai tools are seen as some foreign entity that need banning, as it challenges this vicious cycle of keeping everything down. note that workers are to blame too, there's almost close to none innovation in anything besides IT, because you either innovate and then force everyone else to be competitive in the field, or keep everything as it is and just ban competition in subtle and disgusting ways.
for reference, my family taxes are handled by a tax consultant, i do my taxes through an online service, which is way cheaper than having a dedicated consultant. since my mother couldn't keep her mouth shut, somehow this information got leaked to the family tax consultant, resulting in a police search of my office, and a mandatory visit to a police station almost an hour away. this kind of stuff happens regularly.