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I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective).

I don't think AI slop is indicative of taste. A lot of work doesn't care about taste at all. And AI slop is problematic in that it churns out an awful lot of output that people don't really care to review.

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> I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective).

Taste is literally the thing which the concept of subjectivity exists to explain!

I’d frame taste as a combination of both. People mindfully interacting with a domain will develop nuanced aesthetic preference within it, and while preference is subjective, there’s still plenty that can be agreed upon or respected. Much like morality and relativism.

Obliviousness and uncaring will have similar failure modes, all the more so if both lead to rubber-stamping AI outputs to vague prompts.

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