Kyle Chayka

And you can't have taste without existing.

You can't have taste if you have no self that the taste is built upon, you know?

Damn.

And to me, AI has no sense of self.

It has no sense of beauty.

It literally has no feeling.

It's just a set of average predictive equations that tell you which word is likely to go after the last word.

And so in that sense, I don't think AI can have taste at all.

And I think that the AI bros are trying to be like, oh, but humans are going to bring the taste.

I, the entrepreneur, will lend my taste to the robot.

but I don't really trust their tastes either.

Like what you described, Brittany, is such a beautiful illustration of how having taste in something or perceiving beauty in something is a kind of reflection of your life and your selfhood and the people around you and nostalgia and memory.

And it's kind of everything at once.

And that's meant to be a human-to-human experience, I think.

Like when your husband recommends you something, you relate to it much differently than if a chatbot recommends it to you.

Because the chatbot is not bringing any perspective to this.

It's not hinting at its own memories or what it finds beautiful.

It's just, if you like this, then you will like that.

A lot.

I mean, I think it's really the story of technology, digital technology, particularly over the past, I don't know, let's say at least 18 to 20 years, has been technology taking over the distribution of culture.