The AI 'Taste' Debate: Media and Researchers Are Talking Past Each Other
typewriters · x · 2026-07-30
The author calls for an end to the saturated discourse around 'AI + taste,' arguing that mainstream media, consultants, and AI researchers are fundamentally talking about different things.
- Researchers' taste: The judgment used to steer and shape model development, belonging to the builders.
- Expressive taste: The aesthetic quality or originality reflected in AI outputs.
The essay criticizes the current discourse for conflating these categories. Recognizing quality to guide model development is not the same as taste as cultural production, rendering much of the mainstream media coverage meaningless.
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