Western Europe Italy bans AI assisted products & lab grown meat & "Anglomania"

[The Gays From LA]

Is Null gonna reverse his ancestor's migration to the US and move back to Italy?

Italy is now Europe's most backward country – Britain is a close second

You won’t be allowed to use ChatGPT to improve your productivity or create new products. You won’t be allowed to develop lab-grown meat. And there will be fines for any companies that dare to use English words to improve their marketing, or reach new territories.

Italy has long been a country that preserves its past and reveres its traditions, but over the last few weeks this admirable quality has taken on sinister new overtones.

Rome is turning its back on modernity, clamping down on new technologies with a ferocity that is unprecedented in the developed world.
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It doesn't stop there. The government is backing a draft law that would ban lab-grown meat, with heavy fines slapped on anyone trying to cultivate alternative proteins. Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida argued that "Laboratory products do not guarantee... the protection of the Italian food and wine culture and tradition".

While Britons agonise over what it means to be British, the Italians feel no such confusion: the core of the identity apparently consists of killing pigs and turning them into parma ham.

Another bill tabled by Meloni's party plans to slap €100,000 fines on companies using foreign words in official communications. As it happens, the primary target of the bill's ire is "Anglomania" -- the use of English words, which "demeans and mortifies" Italian.
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Its economy is one of the most closed, and restricted, in the world, and it has barely grown in real terms since the start of the 21st century; from 2000 to 2019, measured in constant dollar terms, Italy eked out a miserable 4 per cent in GDP growth, compared with 27 per cent for Germany and 36 per cent for Spain.
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Both are rapidly ageing, with only very high levels of immigration plugging the gaps in the labour force, and both are suffering from an exodus of young talent, with the smartest graduates increasingly making their careers abroad.

In both, the stock market doesn’t ever really rise, because there are so few dynamic new companies. And, when you add all that up, both are stuck in a zero growth trap. Italy has been there for twenty years, and we have joined them.

Luddism is an inevitable feature of politically stuck, zero growth economies. People become more and more afraid of change for one simple reason. They are fearful of their jobs, and they assume that new technologies will take away their livelihood instead of opening up new opportunities, or creating space for new companies to emerge.

They cling onto a shrinking pie because they have never seen what a growing one looks like, and they no longer believe they can benefit from it. This tendency is increasingly visible in Britain, where politicians appear eager to tax anything that moves to fund redistribution and public services.

Italy is now Europe's most backward country – Britain is a close second

You won’t be allowed to use ChatGPT to improve your productivity or create new products. You won’t be allowed to develop lab-grown meat. And there will be fines for any companies that dare to use English words to improve their marketing, or reach new territories.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Cowboyisaconman]

the AI banning is peak cringe but the fake meat banning based

 

[Cowboyisaconman]

also they are right about luddism and shitty economies luddism is peak gay null nigga nuts retarded

 

[UltimateDestroyer]

This AI shit is going to be the end of so many jobs and just you wait until they install it in some kind of military cyborg type thing. Honestly I don't blame them but a total ban is probably not a good idea.

 

[onionfarts]

Is Null gonna reverse his ancestor's migration to the US and move back to Italy?

I read the first two lines of this ChatGPT gud glownigger propaganda article and then I was like nah (not reading the rest of it).

 

[UltimateDestroyer]

I read the first two lines of this ChatGPT gud glownigger propaganda article and then I was like nah (not reading the rest of it).

Honestly I'm not surprised they're going with the ChatGPT AI shit to produce propaganda, it seems to come out at rates that a human cannot keep up with.

 

[SSj_Ness]

On the one hand, banning lab grown meat seems extreme if they're labeling it properly and not trying to pass it off as regular meat. On the other hand, it might be good to nip it in the bud, if it becomes ubiquitous in food and hard to avoid that'd be fucked up.

 

[The Gays From LA]

On the one hand, banning lab grown meat seems extreme if they're labeling it properly and not trying to pass it off as regular meat. On the other hand, it might be good to nip it in the bud, if it becomes ubiquitous in food and hard to avoid that'd be fucked up.

The problem is that a lot of meat that people are consuming is processed meat. That lab grown meat will inevitably end up in the food chain of those assuming they can avoid it. Just like the pollen from GM crops ended up "contaminating" the flowers and thus the eventual fruit of nearby non-GM crops.