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   Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 02:02:23 JST Matthew Lyon

   to take a general approach to the ...feeeling... of late, in the metaphor/parable of the kid in the Omelas hole,

   it's not much to discover a lot of people you thought would have walked away from Omelas, haven't, because well, you haven't either (there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, no one's an island, the cost of true independence in our society is very high, etc)

   what *is* shocking and demoralizing is rather discovering how many people you thought were decent are actually celebrating the kid in the hole's suffering, and how many more are advocating for throwing more kids in the hole to suffer because just imagine how much cooler society could be

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 02:03:19 JST Matthew Lyon

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     yes this is a post about AI, Climate Change, *looks around* and well, you know

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 02:30:04 JST Matthew Lyon

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     and you know, the implied message behind these people's "well it's here and it's the future so get used to it" is basically "adapt or die" in more flowery words, which, extending the metaphor, is "hey if you get too loud about the kid in the Omelas hole we might throw you in there as well"

     anyway, I've lost respect for a tremendous number of people in the technology field over the past few years, and I can't pin that on *me* changing or even *them* changing, just, circumstances giving us better opportunities to reveal ourselves. And it's very disheartening.

     If you're feeling something similar about the people around you, you should know you're not alone. I suspect there are a lot of us feeling this right now

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 03:14:59 JST Matthew Lyon

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     • Timothy Clark

     @tclark yeah I took my stuff down from soundcloud this morning, then deleted my account

     I haven't gotten to the point of having an artist's statement up yet but perhaps I should

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     Timothy Clark (tclark@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 03:15:00 JST Timothy Clark

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     @mattly I took all my music down from soundcloud because they added AI slop/training to the ToS. https://bsky.app/profile/phantomwest.com/post/3loqokmdjmc22

     And later this year I'm going to write up Phantom West's formal statement on never knowingly using generative AI. ML-informed software like smart-EQ, etc I will keep using, and I'll outline that stuff in the statement.

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 03:17:23 JST Matthew Lyon

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     • Timothy Clark

     @tclark time to break out the procedural white noise generators

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     Timothy Clark (tclark@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 03:17:24 JST Timothy Clark

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     @mattly I put up one of the scratch files from The Midnight Sector up on soundcloud with the image basically to make my point. https://soundcloud.com/phantomwest

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 03:28:42 JST Matthew Lyon

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     • Timothy Clark

     @tclark as someone who has done and wants to get back to code-based algorithmic artwork, one thing I'm going to have to figure out how to clarify is the distinction between "I wrote an algorithm that makes something, tried it with various seeds / parameters, and curated its output" vs "I used a prompt against a database of stolen goods"