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Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually (futurism.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand your wider point and I agree with it.

But I think the point I was making actually supposts what you were saying upthread.

The agrarian model of the cocoa industry is economically reliant on slavery. 2.1 million children labour on those plantations in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, and a significant number have been trafficked or forced.