How taste evolved from a personal sensibility to strategic infrastructure, preserving the one advantage machines cannot imitate.

Why Taste Matters in an Age of Endless Output The internet is filling with machine-made work that looks polished, reads fluently, and passes as original. Infinite output now comes at little cost, and competence no longer signals distinction. The question has shifted: does the work carry judgment? Has it been filtered through an eye that can separate what belongs from what does not?