Comment by herval
3 days ago
Right, that’s one of the stories people tell themselves. Everything every human has ever created is a remix. That’s what creativity is…
3 days ago
Right, that’s one of the stories people tell themselves. Everything every human has ever created is a remix. That’s what creativity is…
Right. If we define "original" as having no prior influence before creating a work, then it applies neither to humans nor AI.
Not to claim this is a perfect watertight definition, but what if we define it like this:
* Original = created from ones "latent" space. For a human it would be their past experiences as encoded in their neurons. For an AI it would be their training as encoded in model weights.
* Remixed = created from already existing physical artifacts, like sampling a song, copying a piece of an image and transforming it, etc.
With this definition both humans and AI can create both original and remixed works, depending on where the source material came from - latent or physical space.
> Remixed = created from already existing physical artifacts, like sampling a song, copying a piece of an image and transforming it, etc.
What's the significance of "physical" song or image in your definition? Aren't your examples just 3rd party latent spaces, compressed as DCT coefficients in jpg/mp3, then re-projected through a lens of cochlear or retinal cells into another latent space of our brain, which makes it tickle? All artist human brains have been trained on the same media, after all.
When we zoom this far out in search of a comforting distinction, we encounter the opposite: all the latent spaces across all modalities that our training has produced, want to naturally merge into one.