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Hmmmm…

Any app or machine you listen to that produces a color of noise, like white, brown, pink, green, or otherwise, is based on an algorithm or a code.

Well, brief aside: Brown noise isn’t a ‘color’ of noise - or if it were, it would be red. It’s just named after Robert Brown, the motion guy.

It’s not truly random—so you’ll get a little while of what seems like random noise, and then the sounds repeat.

This is a complete misunderstanding of how pareidolia works. You’re not picking up on pseudorandomness or actual repetitions that are really hidden in the noise - you’re making up patterns out of the randomness itself.

Same thing that a diffusion-based image generator does when it squints really hard to find the picture of an astronaut riding a horse hidden in a noise field, by amplifying the bits that look most astronauty or horsey.

So, there is an astronaut riding a horse hidden in a noise field?

If you believe it enough, yes.

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