Comment by majormajor

Taste is both driven by tools and independent of it.

It's driven by it in the sense that better tools and the democratization of them changes people's baseline expectations.

It's independent of it in that doing the baseline will not stand out. Jurassic Park's VFX stood out in 1993. They wouldn't have in 2003. They largely would've looked amateurish and derivative in 2013 (though many aspects of shot framing/tracking and such held up, the effects themselves are noticeably primitive).

Art will survive AI tools for that reason.

But commerce and "productivity" could be quite different because those are rarely about taste.