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> Aaron Kau poses for a before and after portrait showing off the clothes his stylist selected for him during a shopping trip to Bloomingdale's. At a glance, I

> Aaron Kau poses for a before and after portrait showing off the clothes his stylist selected for him during a shopping trip to Bloomingdale's. At a glance, I couldn’t tell which was the before and which was the after. The shoes are the most telling, only because no ‘before’ guy would have bought yellow shoes. I’ll admit that black and navy (before) don’t look good together, but the after photo doesn’t look great either. I wonder if it was more or less than a thousand dollars between the clothes and the consultant’s fee. I imagine this market will be disrupted by an AI-based app that costs much, much less (and only occasionally hallucinates that you look good in something that actually looks awful).

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jncfhnb 2y ago
The camera is also tilted / his posture is fixed in the second photo to make him look a few inches taller.
hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
> I imagine this market will be disrupted by an AI-based app that costs much, much less (and only occasionally hallucinates that you look good in something that actually looks awful). GenAI can't even distinguish between "good" code and "bad" code, which should be much simpler. Believing it's anywhere close to magically developing fashion taste is "AI is magic pixie dust" wishful thinking territory. Besides, most of the good/bad is based on factors that AI "safety" is scrambling to avoid. If you're a flabby 250lbs 5'10" you have to dress much differently than someone who's an in-shape 180 6'2" in order to look "respectable". But try encoding that into a GenAI product without getting the media jumping down your throat.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
  The baseline is much lower. If GenAI gives me code that software engineers all agree is bad, that's not very helpful for most purposes, regardless of whether random non-coders think it looks cool. If it gives me clothing styles that most people think look OK, but are universally recognized as lame by fashion experts... that kinda sounds fine to me?
  - hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
    You have it completely backwards; bad code can solve a problem. It may objectively work, even if it's bad because it's not maintainable, doesn't handle edge cases, etc. If you're one of the many shitty programmers employed as a software developer, it's still good enough for you. On the other hand, a fashion advisor GenAI that can't tell good fashion from bad fashion is worthless because the whole point is to tell good from bad. If the AI agent is going to pick out stuff which looks bad anyway, why wouldn't I just do it myself and save the $15/month that whatever idiot SF tech app is charging me?
mc32 2y ago
I’m surprised miss Gant didn’t get him some apropos Gant clothing.

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jncfhnb 2y ago

The camera is also tilted / his posture is fixed in the second photo to make him look a few inches taller.

hnthrowaway6543 2y ago

> I imagine this market will be disrupted by an AI-based app that costs much, much less (and only occasionally hallucinates that you look good in something that actually looks awful). GenAI can't even distinguish between "good" code and "bad" code, which should be much simpler. Believing it's anywhere close to magically developing fashion taste is "AI is magic pixie dust" wishful thinking territory. Besides, most of the good/bad is based on factors that AI "safety" is scrambling to avoid. If you're a flabby 250lbs 5'10" you have to dress much differently than someone who's an in-shape 180 6'2" in order to look "respectable". But try encoding that into a GenAI product without getting the media jumping down your throat.

SpicyLemonZest 2y ago
The baseline is much lower. If GenAI gives me code that software engineers all agree is bad, that's not very helpful for most purposes, regardless of whether random non-coders think it looks cool. If it gives me clothing styles that most people think look OK, but are universally recognized as lame by fashion experts... that kinda sounds fine to me?
- hnthrowaway6543 2y ago
  You have it completely backwards; bad code can solve a problem. It may objectively work, even if it's bad because it's not maintainable, doesn't handle edge cases, etc. If you're one of the many shitty programmers employed as a software developer, it's still good enough for you. On the other hand, a fashion advisor GenAI that can't tell good fashion from bad fashion is worthless because the whole point is to tell good from bad. If the AI agent is going to pick out stuff which looks bad anyway, why wouldn't I just do it myself and save the $15/month that whatever idiot SF tech app is charging me?

mc32 2y ago

I’m surprised miss Gant didn’t get him some apropos Gant clothing.