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Thais Castello Branco @ICML @thaiscbranco_

CEO @ Taste Labs | on a mission to end AI slop @taste_ai_ | prev founding team @ExaAILabs

Joined October 2022
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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design. There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer: - We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments. - We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs. We want a future where AI feels right. If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
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hosting a salt bread TASTEing tomorrow morning dm if you wanna join
Thais Castello Branco @ICML
 @thaiscbranco_
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who’s gonna be in seoul for ICML? would love to meet fellow evals, data, post-training, creative technology, taste obsessed folks. DM me if you’ll be around and let’s get milk breads (why “get coffee” when you can get milk bread instead).
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Who’s at ICML today? Let’s chat about post-training data, evals, non verifiable domains, taste, rl env and more. Also hosting a salt bread TASTEing tomorrow morning, DM me if you want to join!
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Anyone can generate a logo, a landing page, a whole brand now. Almost no one can tell you which one is good. Taste is the whole job now.
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who’s gonna be in seoul for ICML? would love to meet fellow evals, data, post-training, creative technology, taste obsessed folks. DM me if you’ll be around and let’s get milk breads (why “get coffee” when you can get milk bread instead).
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join the fight to end slop ;)
weisser
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Jul 2
2.7x more YouTube views in the first 24 hours than our previous record. The people want a solution to AI slop.
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love an unexpected footer
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Jul 2
Swipe Yes or No Interactive section by @taste_ai_
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there's a risk we'll get used to slop as a society, i don't want that. i want a world of creativity, nuance, greatness. won't stop til we make that happen! thanks for an epic chat @julianweisser @solofounders x @taste_ai_
weisser
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Jul 1
"Millions of people creating with the same tool for totally different use cases, but the output looks the same. That's where the feeling of AI slop comes from." She's making it her mission to put an end to it. Solo Founders Podcast ep 18 is live with @thaiscbranco_ of @taste_ai_. 00:47 Why she went solo 02:08 What "taste" actually is 11:30 A quirk on one, slop on millions 13:09 The real cause: volume 19:37 Why it had to be a "lab" 30:04 You're bad at commissioning AI 44:01 Branding, Liquid Death and what lasts 58:34 The bear and bull case for going solo
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Who's gonna be at @aiDotEngineer in SF next week? Join @taste_ai_ across two tracks to hear about data quality in subjective domains and how to measure AI slop!
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weisser
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"Suddenly you have millions of people creating with the same tool for totally different use cases, but the output looks the same. You end up with this super high volume and repetition of the same pattern, even when it's not appropriate. That's where the feeling of slop comes from." Solo Founders podcast with @thaiscbranco_ coming soon.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak
Jun 24
Beige backgrounds, rust-red text, overzealous italics and underlining, pointless news tickers — I wrote about the increasingly annoying generic style of Claude Design websites and AI-induced homogeneity for my @NewYorker column
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feeeeeling this animation on the new @taste_ai_ website 😍
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i know someone that makes good data
Marco Mascorro @ ICML
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The AI labs wining right now are not the ones with the most compute, but the ones with the best data
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it has 😅. also have a said we’re hiring (a lot)? come build with us!
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Just 48 hours after launch, Taste Labs CEO @thaiscbranco_ says inbound demand has been "absolutely insane." "The reason we took so long to launch is because we already had more demand than we could serve even before the launch. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it."
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Taste Labs
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more quality, more diversity, more nuance. with human judgement at the center! check out the full @tbpn interview with our founder @thaiscbranco_ and if you want to join the community of tastemakers defining what "great" and "slop" means in aesthetics, apply below.
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more diversity, more quality. let's raise the bar! thanks for having me @tbpn x @taste_ai_
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Thais Castello Branco @ICML
 @thaiscbranco_
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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design. There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer: - We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments. - We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs. We want a future where AI feels right. If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
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check out the full interview here:
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if you want to join this community of experts defining aesthetic judgement, apply here: tastemakers.tastelabs.com/
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wow, inbound over the last 48h has been insane. pumped to help more companies raise the aesthetic bar of their models and agents. bear with us as we work through requests :) and, we're hiring (even more now)! research, design, eng, ml, product, ops, and more! apply below.
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tastelabs.com/#team if you are mission-obsessed, deeply technical, creative, and love solving hard problems with great people, you'll like it here :)

Taste Labs - The taste layer for AI

We're giving AI models and agents taste | Join our mission to end AI slop.

tastelabs.com
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portrait carousel animation 🎡
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