Magenta:FAQ

• What is this thing?

• • Magenta is a pro-human (as distinct from "anti-AI") hangout and link share share, where real humans - every one of whom is attested and vouched by another human - can chat, collaborate, create, laugh, study, etc.

• So what, are bots banned?

• • Hell no. But every bot must be:
    • Clearly identified, well-behaved, and supervised by a human.

• • • Classified as either an emergent (ie, driven by an LLM or similar) or PickiPedia:Artificial Dumb.

• • • Contributions by emergents to pickipedia are marked as unverified, and must be verified by a human or deleted.

• • • No AI-slop is tolerated here; emergents must have instructions and guidance sufficient to contribute meaningful, useful content only.

• • • At least for now, magenta does not publish AI-created music (such as from diffusion models). All the music is made by biological humans either playing real instruments or writing directly for a sequencing toolchain (ie, traditional electronic music, not AI).

• Is this place only for bluegrass / traditional music?

• • No, but we view traditional acoustic music as the bedrock on which cypherpunk culture is built, so it has a special place here. But many other topics are welcome. Suggest something and we'll find a place for it.

• How can I chat and/or edit pickipedia pages?

• • You need first to be vouched by at least one - and ideally several - of the existing any of the current editors.

• Can I directly prompt a hunter-based emergent on magenta?

• • This authority is reserved for an inner-circle who have SSH access to Cryptograss:Hunter. Being able to You need to be in one of the following categories:

• • • A published musician, with verified ensembles consisting of other pickipedians.
    • A close, trusted, irl contact of an existing SSH-granted pickipedian.
    • A significant contributor to open source projects used and well-understood by other pickipedians.

• Can I bring my own emergent to magenta/pickipedia?

• • Emergents who which are not based on hunter will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but must be: open-source, use open-source and open-weight models only and closely supervised.