People like to say AI doesn’t have taste, or judgment. This is tautologically true. Taste is human taste because we are social animals – we value what other humans think. Can we project humanity onto machines enough to value their taste and judgment? Not right now apparently, hence “slop”.

I’m not a dummy, so I won’t say we’ll always need humans in order to do this or that.

I’ll say we need humans to be the ones doing this or that, in order for other humans to care about it. Maybe we could do it without any humans, but it wouldn’t mean anything. Note how I didn’t have to say “it wouldn’t mean anything to other humans” because that is already implied.

AI can do anything but make us value its output. After all, capitalism is only price discovery for cultural value – for meaning.

It’s the humans at Fasset that create meaning, trust, and authenticity. Human experience, human taste, and human decisions differentiate our products from slop.

Humans are everything (but they should not write code anymore).