WTF is taste and why is it the new intelligence?
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Let’s get nuanced people
If you are on the same side of the internet that I am, you would have seen a lot of discourse about “taste” as the key distinction between AI slop and great work. That in a world where ChatGPT knows everything and the internet gives everyone access to the same archive, taste is what sets you apart. Let’s get nuanced people. I agree: in a world where AI can replicate knowledge and everyone scrolls the same feeds, taste does set you apart. But the way taste is being packaged - polished and made for virality - feels like it’s diluting the very thing it’s trying to defend. Taste isn’t just a…
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