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.@patronfund General Partner @jasonoliver argues that by definition LLMs can't have taste: "...AI developing taste--that's more like, can they consume enough of other people's opinions to try to predict what it thinks some kind of common opinion should be around a particular topic or particular category?" "That fundamentally goes against like what taste... should be, like based on personal experience, personal preference, etc." "There isn't like, 'Oh, if I like this thing, I have good taste.…
Counter argument: Not only is taste subjective, it's a moving target. As soon as [tasteful thing] becomes easily replicable, it stops being tasteful. Taste is a status game with a strong defensibility mechanism. That's why the term is so fuzzy and ill-defined. Vagueness is the whole point. It's meant to be hard to copy.