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 <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kyle-chayka"target="_blank" >Kyle Chayka</a>, staff writer at The New Yorker, and<a href="https://www.thenation.com/authors/kate-wagner/"target="_blank" > Kate Wagner</a>, 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, '<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste"target="_blank" >Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste</a>' in The New Yorker. Want more about Tech and Culture? Check out these episodes:<a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/02/11/nx-s1-5709035/the-false-promise-of-a-tech-job"target="_blank" >The false promise of a tech job.</a><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5546753/can-you-trust-ai-search-results"target="_blank" >Can you trust AI search results?</a> Support Public Media. <a href="https://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >Join NPR Plus.</a> Follow Brittany on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bmluse/?hl=en"target="_blank" >@bmluse</a> For handpicked podcast recommendations every week, subscribe to NPR’s Pod Club newsletter at <a href="http://npr.org/podclub"target="_blank" >npr.org/podclub</a>. To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below: See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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