AI Scales 'Consensus Taste': Individual Aesthetic Signatures May Remain Unsolvable
paulfinneyx · x · 2026-07-06
The author argues that current efforts in AI design essentially scale pattern matching, turning 'taste' into a 'consensus'. Scaling taste dissolves the individual uniqueness that design should protect—those quirky choices only a human would make. The author suggests that individual aesthetic signatures might be one of the human intellects AI truly struggles to replicate, perhaps remaining an unsolvable mystery. While Figma files are now universally 'good-looking', the gap between 'good-looking' and 'distinctive' persists.
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