AI-era taste goes K-shaped: spiky personal style vs deliberate restraint
round · x · 2026-09-11
Quoting alessiojoseph, round highlights an underrated cultural shift of the AI era: algorithmic dominance has made generic "good taste" blasé, so aesthetics split K-shaped — toward spikier personal taste on one end and intentional restraint on the other. Round adds: "everything will be K-shaped."
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