Tasteslop: Is artificial intelligence ruining our sense of taste?
Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- The article examines “tasteslop,” a term for the increasingly uniform look of content on Instagram.
- It asks whether algorithms are shaping and damaging personal taste, or whether this is simply a new version of an older phenomenon.
Instagram increasingly looks the same, according to the article. The phenomenon has been dubbed “tasteslop,” a term used to describe the way algorithms may shape and destroy individual taste.
But the article does not take the novelty of that claim for granted. It asks whether artificial intelligence and algorithms have really created a new phenomenon, or whether they are repeating an older pattern in which popular systems influence what people like.
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Originally published by Der Spiegel in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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