Ending AI Slop — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs
Taste Labs exits stealth to build data infrastructure ending AI slop in subjective domains
“our whole mission is basically how do we end AI slop?”
Taste Labs, a startup just out of stealth, is positioning itself as the data and infrastructure layer for evaluating AI on subjective domains like design, creative writing, and emotional intelligence where current models still fall short. They partner with frontier labs on model evaluation and benchmarking, and with application-layer companies on user intent understanding. The core thesis is that as billions of non-expert creators adopt AI, solving subjective quality is as critical as improving objective benchmarks like coding and math.