Brittany Luce

Is that inherently bad?

I wonder, I mean, there's no small measure of this kind of like bubbling underneath the surface of people's desire to use AI in the way that we're talking about to discern meaning and to kind of establish their tastes.

What cultural anxieties do you think the push for AI as tastemaker is trying to soothe?

All that being said...

I don't know.

If AI is a false remedy to this longing that we have to be in community and experience like the spice of life, right?

What does the real remedy look like?

That's really beautiful.

Like making something as a way to gain appreciation for how people are doing it at the highest level.

That's very beautiful.

What do you think, Kate?

Well, I appreciate that we are landing on this antidote to this kind of taste problem that you all have identified.

Kate, Kyle, thank you both so much.

Thank you.

That was Kyle Chayka, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Kate Wagner, architecture critic at The Nation.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Corey Antonio Rose.

This episode was edited by Nina Potok.

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