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Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually (futurism.com)
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Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

That really bad for a modern consumer economy yes. But those werent a thing before the industrial revolution. Before that the large majority of people were subsitance/tennant farmer or serfs who consumed basically nothing other than food and fuel in winter. Thats what a slave based economy was an alternantive to. Its also why slvery died out in the 19th century, it no longer fit the times.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wish it did die out in the 19th century. We have more slaves now than ever.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    There being more slaves now then ever is heavily disputed. There is also the fact that was little more than a billion people in the world when the trans-Atlantic slave trade stopped, so there would have to be 8 times as many for slavery to be as prevalent.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Yes, I agree, our per capita slave figure has to be much lower these days, mathematically speaking.

    Even one slave is a slave too many, and knowing there are still so many (whatever figure we put it at) is heartbreaking.

    Things like the cocoa plantation slaves and the slave fishing ships have people kidnapped and forced to work for nothing. Actual slavery by any definition.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Of course, when I said it died out I didn't mean slavery was entirely gone and doesn't exist at all. I mean it died out as a prevalent societal structure.

    100s of people in slavery on a cocoa plantation is of course awful, but it shouldn't obscure the fact that there used to be vast swathes of land where slaves outnumbered free people and their children were born into bondage - that is what has died out.

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