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AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.

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taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

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  1. Kyle Chayka

    Staff writer at The New Yorker

    If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.

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