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Sowing the Latent Field: SEMILLA.AI, Sovereignty, and uncovering the Black Box
SEMILLA.AI is a neural audio instrument built against the sealed black boxes of commercial AI: named after the Maya seed glyph for zero, trained on small, consented datasets instead of scraped corpora. In version 2, seeds cast into a circular world-space become attractors in a physics simulation that drives the decoder directly — no encoder, no prompt, no sound that has ever existed before. Moisés Horta Valenzuela on artist-owned models, maize divination, and why provenance decides sovereignty in music AI.
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