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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.

New Yorker Kyle Chayka

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  • @mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky
    It takes good taste to write about taste. spyglass.org/ai-taste/ [embedded post]
  • @hunterwalk.com @hunterwalk.com on bluesky
    the more ‘taste’ you claim, the less i believe you have [embedded post]
  • @rauchway Eric Rauchway on bluesky
    guys who wear fleece logo vests and barefoot toe shoes gonna tell you about taste now
  • @rmccarthyjames @rmccarthyjames on bluesky
    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
  • @chaykak Kyle Chayka on bluesky
    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...
  • @tante.cc @tante.cc on bluesky
    “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
  • r/UXDesign r on reddit
    Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste