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Taste Labs emerges from stealth with $18.5m to sell judgment to an AI industry drowning in its own output
The New York company, co-led in its seed round by CRV and Amplify Partners, is betting that the dominant method for aligning AI models has been quietly manufacturing the sameness now derided as slop, and that curated taste is the infrastructure layer the industry forgot to build.