AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality
In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.LinkedIn:Stephanie Clifford.
this makes me think about my husband jason, who has spent his whole life developing a robust and incredibly idiosyncratic sense of taste. the kind you can't really bring to maturity if you're trying to make money off of it
my latest @newyorker.com column is on the AI industry's ironic obsession with “taste”, a human capacity for a fundamentally anti-human technology www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
“We might call what's going on now “taste-washing,” an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.” — https://www.newyorker.com/culture/ infinite-scroll/why-tech-bros-are-now- obsessed-with-taste