Robin James - Aesthetic Taste in the AI era: emotional labor, executive authority, and bourgeois good taste without the bourgeoisie (opens in new tab)

As The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka has discussed in one of his recent columns, the AI bros are really into the idea of aesthetic taste. In the extreme information overload that generative AI provides, taste is the capacity to discern, and thus, to lead. Sari Azout, writing on the company blog for her upmarket Pinterest platform Sublime, argues that