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fdsfsafasfdas | 8 years ago

> With all the AI being thrown around, can't someone build a "tastefulness" filter?

It turns out taste varies.

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lobster_johnson|8 years ago

I would argue (somewhat tongue in cheek) that people who don't have a taste [1] don't need a filter. The filter is for people who want to climb above the trash, not for those who willingly submerge themselves.

[1] https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrainyDayCreations, https://www.etsy.com/shop/PurpleHeartUK, https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigSwigDesign, https://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftyMamaGifts, etc.

fdsfsafasfdas|8 years ago

Right. I wouldn't use that; while I can totally understand why you linked the shops you did, they also aren't qualitatively much different than the shops I do appreciate. So I'd rather not automate away my taste until, you know, it's my taste.

PhasmaFelis|8 years ago

Based on those links, I think you may have confused "taste" with "irony". :)

sqeaky|8 years ago

Still sounds like an interesting problem.

Perhaps a set of AI filters could be built, and Netlix or Pandora style whichever one a person agrees with more often is selected and more results from it are presented to them.

Or perhaps a Convolution Network trained to filter per person or something equally wasteful if the allocations of Etsy's budget actually match the article. But of course those GPUs would be locally sourced and powered by renewable hamster wheels and 100% organic hamsters.

Qwertious|8 years ago

Which just means that taste is a function of a person. Or, approximately, a function of all the data you have on them.