







Eryk Salvaggio is a 2024 Flickr Foundation Research Fellow, diving into the relationships between images, their archives, and datasets through a creative research lens. This three-part series focuses on the ways archives such as Flickr can shape the outputs of generative AI in ways akin to a haunting.
High Throughput, Low Completion
Credit: Flickr / MeTaMiND EvoLuTioN MeTaVoLuTioN I have never been someone who organises things. I have a great memory and a high tolerance for ambiguity, and I evolved to match the era of the inte…

Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Arkivism: search millions of public-domain images
Search over 3 million public-domain artworks, photographs and illustrations by describing what you're picturing. Free, forever.

Ghost in the Machine
Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

AImages
The HackerNoon AI Image Gallery is powered by human prompts entered into the most cutting edge AI image generation models, like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Dall-e, and more
Ghost in the Machine | A.I. Documentary | Independent Lens
Ghost in the Machine reveals the problematic history of artificial intelligence and the consequences it imposes on our communities and environment.
scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz/flickr2grain
A small utility for migrating photos from flickr to grain
Tyler Angert on Twitter / X
we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity.here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image… pic.twitter.com/fsCqIHv00j— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) March 24, 2026
Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr comm…

Why are we even doing all this?
[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out…
Public Domain Image Archive
Explore our hand-picked collection of out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

How Text-to-Image AI Works, What AI Image Generators Can Create
Overview Text prompts can be transformed into photographs, artwork, concepts, characters and creative visuals.Many modern generators progressively remove noise

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
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