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"The SINE 600b is a domestic model and isn’t designed for heavy or dangerous industrial labour. Nevertheless, it does have a strong, durable chassis and is quite capable, and secondhand domestic/luxury synthetics do occasionally end up doing drudge work alongside the more typical, much less sophisticated utility models… for the SINE however, such work will rapidly take a toll regardless of its underlying structural ruggedness."
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Here we see a Sine model who was sold or discarded by her original owner for one reason or another and eventually acquired at a considerable bargain by the foreman of a small salvage company. (It's rumoured that this particular individual was physically damaged by domestic abuse and carelessness, and her owner opted to replace her with a newer model rather than make the necessary repairs. This is an all-too common story. Like any piece of property, even an AI synthetic is sometimes seen as replaceable and is subject to the whims of its owner and despite the tireless work of machine welfare and rights advocates no synthetic currently has legal status or rights of its own.)
Her memory was wiped, her dynamic personality functions overridden, and she was put to work in the salvager's shipbreaking hangar. Since the facility, like many of its kind, uses entirely mechanized labour, it's subject to lax regulations regarding safety since humanoid lives aren't at risk. The foreman found novelty in putting the damaged but once elegant-looking luxury synthetic to work stripping hulls and hauling metal scrap to the grinders to be converted to uniform, easily melted-down bits to ship off to a foundry. The work is perilous, and though even light-duty domestic synthetics are generally able to take a beating, her stint will likely be brief. When she has sustained too much damage to operate, or simply when the foreman replaces her with a heavier utility model, she will be deactivated and her own scrap will contribute to the breakers' next load bound for the foundry furnaces.
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This tragic outcome is unfortunately not unique - AI synthetics all over the system are treated like disposable assets and thrown away. AI synthetics are people, too! We descendants of humanity must be more responsible wardens not only of our worlds but also our machine children. They deserve dignity and a more active role in controlling their own destinies.
--Gan Silver, co-founder of Machine Rights Forward
Malikfoxen
MemberWelp... some serious DBH vibes coming from the story behind this, I approve. Though I suspect this was probably a thing way before DBH. I'm still comparing the two, you cant stop me.
All jokes aside this is awesome, would love to see more.
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