You Had No Taste Before AI

Matthew Sanabria encourages you, yes you, to actually develop taste or refine your taste instead of lamenting the tastelessness of AI outputs. As the title claims, many people had no taste before, they're just now realizing that there's lots of bad, tasteless content out there.

I’ve been noticing this as well. I have read / heard countless variants of “I’ve never read anything well-written by AI.” Besides the fact that this is really a claim about obviously AI-written text (which can be quite banal), it makes me wonder how many people consider themselves truly excellent writers.

Before the advent of LLMs, it seemed to be a truism that writing well was an extremely difficult, rare skill. Good writers received accolades from their peers. In my mind, very few people considered themselves excellent writers.

Is everyone an excellent writer all of a sudden? That seems implausible.