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You Had No Taste Before AI

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Re: You Had No Taste Before AI

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Taste is a very subjective thing, but I think in a lot of the things described in the article there is a clear better or worse. I would describe that as craftsmanship or attention to detail, more of a craft than an art.

Re: You Had No Taste Before AI

#4
Having taste is one thing, having the standards to hold yourself to a certain level of quality, that's another thing altogether.

Generating profits is about the most tasteless thing one could do, yet it underpins all of our professional efforts.

The paradox is baked in, and some of us do our best to navigate it.

Re: You Had No Taste Before AI

#8
“The loudest voices preaching about taste and AI are often the ones who never demonstrated taste before AI.”

Yes, and if even these people can tell that AI generated stuff is godawful and tasteless, that tells you everything you need to know about AI.

Re: You Had No Taste Before AI

#9
While I am not sure I actually agree with the author, I think he touched on something interesting. LLM is probably the first tool, where I consciously adapted to using it. For better or worse, it can change you and you get to pick direction of that change.

edit: As I am thinking about it more, it may be function of age. I am picking up some additional hobbies now and my whole approach has become much more intentional in general.

Re: You Had No Taste Before AI

#10
I read almost half of it before just stopping and clicking away since this article is extremely surface level, but pretends not to by referring to AI usage as 'taste'. Might have missed something in the other half, but doubt it.
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