taste 9
- AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.
- Slop is becoming the defining cultural metaphor of the late 2020s.
Kyle Chayka
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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AI slop 4
- AI-driven homogenization will spread across every field of human endeavor until AI becomes truly original or is curbed.
- AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.
design 4
- The globalization of generative AI tools has leveled creative production, letting people everywhere work in the same visual idioms.
- Artists whose livelihoods are threatened by AI-generated content are turning toward deliberately rough, handmade aesthetics as a response.
innovation 4
- AI-driven homogenization will spread across every field of human endeavor until AI becomes truly original or is curbed.
- Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.
social media 3
- Social media no longer works for writers to reach an audience; newsletters are a better channel.
- Being heard as an artist or citizen today requires engaging with a toxic internet.
writing 3
- The only cure for being unable to write is to put words down, even if it is only a hundred in a day.
- A pleasant writing atmosphere might make the act of writing easier, but it is doubtful that it ever makes the writing itself better.
LLMs 2
- AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.
- Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.
Silicon Valley 2
- The Trump-Musk government's approach descends from a Silicon Valley ideology that prizes frictionless technology built by elite engineers over messy human institutions.
- AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.