Film · Slide 17 · Stay in the room · 2008
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Brett Gaylor
The grandfather of consent + remix questions in the AI era. Long before training data, Gaylor asked: who owns culture once it's circulated? Watch this and you cannot un-see what's happening to your work.
Extended notes
The grandfather of consent + remix questions in the AI era. Long before training data, Gaylor asked: who owns culture once it's circulated? Watch this and you cannot un-see what's happening to your work.
Pair it with the closing argument of the talk — stay in the room, write the rules. Gaylor's filmmakers stayed in the room. The training-data debate is the same room with bigger speakers.
Discussion prompts
- 01Map Gaylor's four-part argument onto generative AI. Which parts still hold? Which need a rewrite?
- 02Pick one of your own works. Trace a plausible path from your hard drive into a model. Where would consent have to enter that pipeline to feel honest?
- 03If 'culture always builds on what came before,' what is the version of attribution that respects both the lineage and the labour?
Quick questions (from the library card)
- Where does Gaylor's argument hold up under generative AI? Where does it bend?
- If 'culture is collage,' what does fair compensation look like for the originals?
- Which of your own works are already in someone's training set — and how would you know?