What remains when archives become datasets? Written for my Flickr Foundation Research Fellowship, these pieces look at archives as AI infrastructure and the ways the past “haunts” generated images as a result.

Art, biasEryk SalvaggioJuly 17, 2024archives, hauntology, ai images

Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise (2023)

A short “documanifesto” on how Diffusion models work, concerns about their logic, and my attempt to resist them through creative misuse.

Art, biasEryk SalvaggioJune 1, 2023flowers blooming backward, noise, gaussian noise, ai images

How to Read an AI Image

A text about reading AI images as infographics.

biasEryk SalvaggioOctober 2, 2022ai, ai images, ai literacy

Nobody is Always Watching You: From Big Brother to Big Data

As George Orwell's 1984 enters the public domain, how might we use that lens to explore historic relationships between truth, surveillance, and artificial intelligence technology today?

Cybernetics, bias, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioFebruary 10, 2021Orwell, surveillance, bias, wiener, cybernetics

This Black Woman Does Not Exist

What I Learned About Algorithmic Bias From Creating the First AI-generated faces on Wikimedia Commons.

bias, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioOctober 4, 2019bias