"Recently, the president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, tweeted, taste is the new core skill. And in planning for this, I have read endless tech blogs about taste, which is odd to me because I think of Silicon Valley as fundamentally anti taste. And Kyle, you wrote about this recently. What is going on there. Why does Silicon Valley care about taste."
"Oh my God. I feel like it's because they realize they don't have it. Kind of like us. I started noticing it in the last year or two, I would say as generative A.I. has become more and more popular and seen more uptake with normal people."
"Welcome to Fruit Love Island, where eight single fruits are about to flirt, fight and trust. Fruit Love Island. I'm Limerya. I'm a lime from Miami. It's just an A.I. slop version of the reality television show. And it's really bad. Obviously you're crazy and you like it. But there's something about it that's just hooked me."
"What's going to happen if A.I. can create actually good culture? How will any of us resist taste slop?"
Silicon Valley is showing growing interest in taste, even though it has often been seen as anti-taste. Generative AI’s rise among everyday people has made taste feel like a missing capability. OpenAI leadership has framed taste as a core skill, prompting tech blogs and commentary about how AI might generate or understand what people like. The cultural fascination is paired with skepticism about “taste slop,” or low-quality, mass-produced content. A reality-style “Fruit Love Island” parody is used to illustrate how AI-generated entertainment can be compelling yet bad. The central concern is how people will resist low-quality culture if AI can produce appealing outputs.
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