The hard work of having "good taste"

Do you think you have good taste? Having a good sense of taste is something like a cultural badge of honor: the result of hard work understanding what you find beautiful and why it moves you.

Silicon Valley tech bros are latching onto taste as a new buzzword, and some are even suggesting that their products can give you a fast track to refining your own taste. Brittany is joined by Kyle Chayka , staff writer at The New Yorker, and Kate Wagner , architecture critic at The Nation, to find out whether or not taste can be created from terabytes of AI data.

You can read Kyle's piece, titled, ' Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste ' in The New Yorker. Want more about Tech and Culture?

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