Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319

**Thais Castello Branco** (0:00)
You have models that can solve cyberhack and solve PhD level math problems, and they can't write a good tweet or make a good design. The average is that thing that you're going to not even take a second glance at, that you've seen a lot.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:09)
The people who build these things have no taste. Let's be honest, they don't have taste. Most design, most tweets, most blog posts are average. I haven't replaced that function yet.

**Lon Harris** (0:22)
I don't feel like we have figured this out yet. Everyone I know who used to work in media has this kind of cultural critic or thinker, curator, are all struggling to find work.

**Thais Castello Branco** (0:35)
The more you have of this mass production of things, the more I think the peak of the peak of the peak becomes valuable.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:41)
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**Jason Calacanis** (1:23)
All right, everybody. Welcome back. It is Friday. It's July 31st, 2026 I'm in New York City. World tour, Hawaii, Paris, Tokyo, New York. You've been everywhere. Back in Austin next week. Get ready for the big school.
School starts at August 15th now, Lon. Did you know that, Lon?

**Lon Harris** (1:41)
I think they added more holidays for the kids during the year. When I was going to school, it was September, second week of September, you go back. This seems shockingly early to me.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:51)
I broke out of the matrix a while ago. I told these schools, like, listen, we live a non-traditional situation.
We're gonna take the kids on a ski week. We're gonna start Christmas a week early. We're gonna come back two days later. And they put all this kind of pressure on you. And I'm like, but we're gonna have a tutor and we'll keep up with the stuff. And I want them to see the world. And I was really excited because my three daughters came with me to Paris and they came with me to Tokyo. But they came to Founder University Japan and got to see some of the content. So I'm really excited about that.
Because how do you raise kids, Lon, in this new world, in this new AI world where you could be taking a class and never put it... We already were in that situation. We were like, is this class going to be applicable? Now it's like, is anything applicable?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:38)
What is the skill of the future?

**Lon Harris** (2:40)
Do you need to read Hamlet at this point? Like, I don't know. I'm glad I did, I guess.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:44)
Or maybe you do. And that's what makes us uniquely human is our artistic ability and other things, which we'll get into today.

**Lon Harris** (2:52)
Read Hamlet. It's good. It's good. I'm not saying Hamlet's not good. You should read it. I'm just saying.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:56)
Well, and I mean, all the jobs are going away, except for the six open job wrecks I have right now.

**Lon Harris** (3:02)
Twist producer and editor.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:03)
My business is growing.

**Lon Harris** (3:04)
Not going away. We need newsletter writers, but most jobs are going away.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:08)
Well, if you're ambitious, now is the best time ever. All right, we've got a lot of news, but we also have a guest.

**Lon Harris** (3:14)
We do.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:14)
So we're going to do guest and then news. What's in the news to tease it a bit?

**Lon Harris** (3:19)
Well, we got to talk about Situational Awareness. That's Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund. He's only 25 His public portfolio has been sold off to Citadel, but there is more to this story. I think everybody initially- We're going to get into it. Yeah. And everybody initially was like, ha ha, Wall Street, this kid got blown out. He's done.
There's a lot going on here behind the scenes.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:41)
And I have strong feelings about it. What else is in the news?

**Lon Harris** (3:44)
Well, there we go. We got to talk about Google made this insane decision to add they added Nano Banana to Google Earth. Did you see this? So you could use their AI image generator to manipulate images from Google Earth. I think you can immediately see why that might be a questionable idea.