Yeah, I don’t think they would have been like modern slaves but more like bully/bullied relationships where those at the bottom aren’t forced to do labour but get targetted for various forms of abuse, including sexual, which would have sometimes resulted in a child.
They probably wouldn’t be abused by everyone in the group. Other apes like chimps show sympathy to individuals that get picked on by more dominant individuals, so I’d expect some of us were like that back then, too. But other apes also demonstrate that some individuals can just be assholes or otherwise decent but can get in bad moods.
But it isn’t encoding knowledge, it’s encoding word correlations. That’s how it can get things wrong like saying fat32 won’t be good for a 64GB removable drive because fat32 only has a 2TB address space.
Or how it can get something wrong and when you point it out, it immediately sees how it was wrong. And I realize that that sounds human, but the way it gets there is very different. It’s predicting responses based off word correlations, not using knowledge recall to apply facts and relations known about the topics and generate responses from that.