artifact

Definition

Two distinct senses. In image, video, and audio work it means an unwanted distortion introduced by the method itself — flicker, ringing, blockiness — something to be measured and removed. In software engineering and reproducibility contexts it means the deliverables shipped alongside a paper: code, data, trained weights, as in artifact evaluation. One you apologise for; the other you release.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Agentic Artifact Creation — Where Generation Ends and Construction BeginsAgentic Artifact Creation: Systems, Evaluation, Principles, and Opportunities