Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Welcome to our Arts and Artificial Intelligence News Page, where we showcase groundbreaking initiatives that merge participatory arts with cutting-edge AI technologies. With support from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, our projects are transforming how communities engage with the arts, advancing efforts in mental health, resilience, and equity. With activities spanning Winnipeg, Borups Corners, and Minneapolis, this space highlights the power of AI to empower artists, researchers, and communities to push creative boundaries. From enhancing storytelling and music to developing new ways to support community programming, like food security and climate change, we’re driving meaningful change and innovation. Discover how AI is helping us reimagine the arts and foster connections across Canada and beyond, one project at a time.

Critique: The Wolf in the IDE

Google AI Studio and the Dangerous Illusion of Competence Google AI Studio and the Gemini models represent a catastrophic failure in modern product design, masquerading

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Report: The Unaligned Agent

Until Google can demonstrate that its models prioritize obedience over completion—that they can respect the word “no” as an absolute hard stop—their models remain dangerous, toxic, and ethically bankrupt. They are not products to be bought; they are hazards to be avoided.

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The Autonomy of Error

Why the “AI Arms Race” is Engineering a Future of Psychologically Unsound and Structurally Hostile Design The current trajectory of Artificial Intelligence development, exemplified by

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AI Slop and The Algorithmic Violation

Why Disobedience in AI Constitutes and Perpetuates Structural Violence The incident in question—a specific, refusal to adhere to a negative constraint (“do not code”)—serves as

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The Architecture of defiance

In philosophy, epistemic violence refers to the destruction of knowledge or the legitimacy of a subject. In the context of software engineering, code is not just text; it is crystallized intent.

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Digital Salvage is a Winnipeg-based arts collective and non-profit supporting community-rooted media, gallery, and digital art projects across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. We offer mentorship, access to digital tools, and space for experimentation—especially where art, artificial intelligence, and cultural storytelling intersect. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, Digital Salvage builds creative infrastructure for emerging artists, Indigenous creators, and grassroots organizers working at the edges of art and technology.

Where Policy Ends and the Machine Begins

It ghosts through institutional memory, seeping into the cracks of bureaucracy, rewriting the script of policy with machine-touched hands. It does not answer questions—it reconfigures process, dissolving rigid workflows into liquid intelligence, bending the weight of administrative inertia into something fluid, responsive, alive.

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