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Against Taste - by Will Manidis - Minutes

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Taste arrived quietly, somewhere over the last few months.

Taste arrived quietly, somewhere over the last few months. It arrived the way a new technology consensus always arrives. It wasn’t argued into place. It simply appeared there one morning, like the weather. No one proposed it. No one even had to. It was a clean and easy answer to the question everyone in technology has been asking: what are humans for once the models get good enough? Taste was a clean and easy answer. It could be deployed at deliberative catch up coffees in San Francisco matcha bars, the kind with overstuffed croissants that end up on viral TikToks and hashtag-food Slack…

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