> some organized crime groups have taken advantage of Italy’s clean energy transition; one farmer who testified to an anti-Mafia commission in 2022 said he was approached by solar panel companies to sell his land after it had been burned.
> “These are inhumane acts. Sadly, men are their own worst enemies.”
I heard the clearance rate for arson in most jurisdictions in southern Italy is some incredibly low number.
Even brazen arson in densely populated urban cores has clearance rates well under 50%… and there’s no significant momentum to address that, so effectively the people of Italy have given up a long time ago.
Thieves…like Anthropic who literally just settled a case for pirating? Those kind of thieves?
Always better to name them outright.
Anthropic STOLE data for training. Verifiably. Admitted. In court. Then settled.[0]
You can also likely assume that OpenAI did too. There simply wasn’t enough data without having done so at least at some point in their corporate history. In fact, I seem to recall they were able to extract Harry Potter text from all the major modes[1]
I don’t think any of these examples represent _successful_ opposition, though. Except maybe the warming center for homeless people? I can’t tell if it got built or not.
These examples basically amount to “some people didn’t like this”, which doesn’t mean that the balance of public opinion wasn’t favourable. Unanimous support is too high a bar.
