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Eryk Salvaggio

Eryk Salvaggio

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A group of men seemingly throwing parrots in a specific direction, as if to race them.

Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it on your podcast services here. OpenAI put out its full technical report on the Hugging Face

By Eryk Salvaggio 31 Aug 2026
The System From Nowhere

The System From Nowhere

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" is a way of talking about AI systems that excludes its origin as a consciously, human-designed

By Eryk Salvaggio 16 Aug 2026

Talk: Slop Infrastructures

What happens when AI image models meet social media algorithms? What is the infrastructure of Slop? How does it get made, and how can we make sense of it? In this 15-minute video, I walk through the slop pipeline as an interconnected social-technical system, fusing generative AI and

By Eryk Salvaggio 09 Aug 2026
As described, but note that Ulisses Lispector is a dog. The statues appear against a beach with the city rising across the waves.

Understanding as Proof of Error

Clarice Lispector, Translation, and Artificial Intelligence 💡Nerd Warning: 1/5 (Low).  I'm a writer who fears the snare of words: the words I say hide others - Which? Maybe I'll say them. – Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life To translate a work of literature is to select

By Eryk Salvaggio 26 Jul 2026

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