Jeff Park

That's a nice, eloquent way.

That's a great way to put it.

I think 2026 is the year where...

People are going to really understand that authenticity matters so much, but the way that they're going to judge this is their own criteria for measurement is gonna be more fine-tuned.

You've seen people now pick up what is now called like AI slop in the social universe, where you can kind of have telltale signs of things that are like,

you know, maybe AI generated.

And people are quick to equate that to mean that those are therefore not of high quality.

And it's interesting because, um,

is the definition of quality comes to play, right?

Because like when you have made in China, like sneakers, right?

By child labor, you know, which was not great in the 90s.

It's hard to know if those are like actually badly made or just cheaply made and what people felt about that to be like an authentic experience of a good that represents their values, right?

I would almost argue that those sneakers are probably better than my current like on sneakers, which every day seems to get a hole like every month.

And so they're not well-made anymore.

I think the bar is going higher.

And in that sense, like everyone is going to start craving for more realness.

And that realness then translates into like really idiosyncratic behavior, right?

Because think about it again, like LLMs, they learn by regurgitating

past behavior at scale.

So the only way to differentiate yourself from past behaviors at scale is to do new behaviors that are so idiosyncratic or your own that it cannot possibly be confused with AI.