Is taste really a barrier LLMs can't cross? A debate on AI and the status game of taste
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-14
Responding to Benjitaylor's claim that taste is no longer a permanent boundary LLMs can't cross, julianlehr counters that taste is not just subjective but a moving target: once a tasteful thing becomes easily replicable, it stops being tasteful. He frames taste as a status game with a strong defensibility mechanism, arguing that its vagueness is the whole point — it's designed to be hard to copy. The thread sparks discussion on whether AI can genuinely cross the taste frontier.
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