taste

A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produce excellent outputs by existing standards. But it will not produce the output that creates a new standard.

I don't care who the hell you are or where you are from or whether you have been published before. Do you have something interesting to say? That's all that matters.

As images of any kind become easier to generate, the designers who stand out are those who can create a sense of cohesiveness and emotion.

AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.

if your job is legible enough that people can make a dataset clearly pointing out what is right and what is wrong, you are at the highest risk for an AI model being “superhuman” at your job. It is even more risky if it is possible to articulate your thought process in a way that is verifiable.

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Everyone in design circles loves to pontificate about taste, but it's always the people with portfolios that look like a Vegas casino who have the most to say. Taste is the emperor's new clothes of the creative industry, claimed by all, possessed by few, recognized only by those who already have it. But the twisted... See more