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Their wordsA.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.
Our reading
Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.
Their wordsWe might call what's going on now "taste-washing," an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.
Our reading
The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.
Their wordsAnother conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.
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