Eryk Salvaggio

2025-11-14 • technology philosophy art humanities ai

The author, Eryk Salvaggio, informs readers that Cybernetic Forests has moved from Substack to a personal website. He highlights past writings that explore the relationship between humans and AI, including topics like human litera...

2025-04-20 •

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2024-11-06 •

The author is migrating from Substack to Ghost, an independent newsletter platform. The migration should be invisible to subscribers, and paid subscribers will have their subscription transferred over. The author explains the reas...

2024-11-05 •

The text discusses the potential inaccuracy of election polling and its similarities to artificial intelligence. It highlights the biases and errors in polling data, and the challenges in predicting voter behavior. The author emph...

2024-10-27 •

The text is a transcript from a seminar delivered at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) as part of a series of dialogues around This Hideous Replica, at RMIT Gallery. It discusses the cybernetic understanding of ge...

2024-10-19 •

Eryk Salvaggio spoke at the Fantastic Futures conference in Canberra, Australia. He discussed the infrastructure of memory and its relationship with artificial intelligence. He highlighted the importance of preserving the meaning ...

2024-10-13 •

The text discusses the author's experiment with AI-generated video and the way time works inside it. It also explores the concept of Pareidolia in AI and the author's role in the process. The author also mentions his upcoming even...

2024-10-06 •

The text discusses the relationship between art and AI, focusing on the use of noise in generative AI and the limitations of AI in expanding possibilities. It also explores the impact of AI on human creativity and the dangers of d...

2024-10-03 •

The text discusses the ethics of open-source AI, particularly Meta's LLaMA model, and its implications for developing AI ecosystems in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. It highlights concerns about the infrastructure for AI, th...

2024-09-29 •

The text discusses the myth of the latent space in AI image generation and the misconception that every possible permutation of an image has already been achieved within the vector space of a diffusion model. It also delves into t...

2024-09-22 •

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2024-09-08 •

The text discusses the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in understanding and predicting language and the world. It explains the difference between structural and statistical models, and how LLMs are not suitable for pre...

2024-09-01 •

The text discusses the concept of AI images and the slow deterioration of plausibility that occurs from holding a gaze. It also delves into the metaphors of artificial intelligence systems as they reflect human thought, memory, an...

2024-08-29 •

The article discusses the myths and metaphors surrounding artificial intelligence and how they shape our understanding of technology. It emphasizes the need for myths that animate the social imagination of technology rather than o...

2024-08-04 •

The text discusses the relationship between art, technology, and AI, using Stan Brakhage's Mothlight as a reference point. It explores the limitations and potential of AI in creating art, and the role of artists in shaping a more ...

2024-07-28 •

The text is about the author's experience as a net artist in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It discusses their struggles with mental health, their involvement in the net art community, and the impact of their work. The author ref...

2024-07-21 •

The text discusses the use of AI-generated images and the implications of using noise to disrupt the system. It explores the relationship between technology, politics, and art, and how artists can challenge and reject the politics...

2024-07-14 •

The post is a studio visit by Eryk Salvaggio, showing works in progress and thoughts about AI. As an artist and researcher, he aims to break generative AI systems to find their limits and how they respond when pushed. He discusses...

2024-07-07 •

The text is about a Reddit user who generated over 200,000 images and has no idea what to do with them. The author reflects on the implications of AI image generators and the sense of joyous pointlessness about them. The text also...

2024-06-30 •

The text is the conclusion of a writing series by Eryk Salvaggio, examining the ways that infrastructure becomes haunted by what enters into it. It also includes an interview with Caroline Sinders and Jesse Damiani's Urgent Future...

2024-06-23 •

The text discusses the author's research posts for the Flickr Foundation, focusing on generative AI and the YFCC100M Dataset. It also mentions the work 'Because of You' winning a prize at the CVPR Art Gallery and a conversation ab...

2024-06-16 •

The text discusses the author's thoughts on sharing data online, focusing on the three broad categories of context, consent, and control. It also mentions a podcast episode and a satirical work by a collaborator.