Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)

Why HN readers recommended it

Pointed to in copyright and AI debates as a compelling case that all culture is remix.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kirby Ferguson

Topic

remix and creativity

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• When I cover generative AI in my Ethics in AI lecture, one of few soapbox opinions I give is that GenAI is doing essentially what people do - copy others. Picasso has a quote about "Good Artists copy, Great Artists steal", which doesn't mean try …

• Anytime these discussions pop up, it's good to link to the documentary "Everything is a Remix" (here is the 2023 updated version: [VIDEO] " ) It highlights how essentially everything in culture is a remix of some previous version of the culture (or some aspect …

• >LLM-creation ("training") involves detecting/compressing patterns of the input. There's a pretty compelling argument that this is essentially what we do, and that what we think of as creativity is just copying, transforming, and combining ideas. LLMs are interesting because that compression forces distilling the world …