The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)

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Instagram’s widely criticized feed redesign reached only 4% of iOS users as an early test, not a full rollout.
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A chronological feed looks like user control, yet prolific publishers can bury friends by posting as often as possible.
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A feed with zero unwanted content becomes generic. Discovery requires occasional misses.
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The right human-AI relationship is a centaur: humans stay in charge. The failure mode is a reverse centaur, people executing AI’s strategy.
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AI fake accounts are a new spam vector: attractive aesthetics and stereotypes can sell fraudulent products without revealing the deception.
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When building becomes cheap, deciding what deserves to exist becomes the scarce skill. That is why taste matters more.
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A real strategy is an opinionated path to a vision, specific enough that reasonable people can disagree.
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Human value is concentrating in vision and strategy: define the destination, choose the path, set constraints, and judge progress.
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Learning a language teaches the AI-era skill: sound foolish, accept correction, and improve through repeated practice.
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Vibe coding with a child turns screen time into collaborative making while building digital and AI literacy.
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Platforms must test before reaching billions, but testing at that scale makes controversy unavoidable.
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When synthetic content becomes abundant, people are likely to value creativity, authenticity, individual perspective, and the person behind the content.
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The best AI users know what current tools cannot do, while building judgment about what they soon will.
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How much strategic autonomy should AI agents receive when deciding not only how to build something, but what to build?
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A workflow being outsourceable to AI does not make outsourcing wise. Some applications help both sides, while others carry risks outweighing benefits.
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Personalization can raise engagement while making users feel less in control. Product design must balance agency with community health.
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Technology debates deserve criticism without collapsing complicated tradeoffs into simplistic stories about people’s motives.
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Asking AI for a strategy is insufficient. Give it explicit goals and constraints, then steer its analysis aggressively.
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Curiosity is becoming a career advantage: experiment with unfamiliar tools, accept mistakes, and adapt faster than change arrives.
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Treat AI content like other content: remove what is unsafe, then rank the rest for interest and personalization.

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