Comment by kazinator
1 day ago
That is not strictly true, because being able to transfer the style of Van Gogh onto an arbitrary photographic scene is novel in a sense, but it is interpolative.
Mashups are not purely derivative: the choice of what to mash up carries novelty: two (or more) representations are mashed together which hitherto have not been.
We cannot deny that something is new.
Innovation itself is frequently defined as the novel combination of pre-existing components. It's mashups all the way down.
I'm saying their comment is calling that not something new.
I don't agree, but by their estimation adding things together is still just using existing things.