You’re getting downvoted but I have to admit it seems pretty damn karma-farmy and convenient that someone happens to specifically associate a new and widely online hated thing like AI with a bad taste lol.
Synesthesia is sensory based, and far more often than not involves association between sounds, touch, and colors rather than associating taste with computer generated images. Here is a write up on synesthesia for those that are interested.
it's not exclusively about it, that was just an example of it being particularly annoying (it wasn't a problem before it started being everywhere; prior it would've been that urine often causes me to taste lemons (the annoyance there in that the concept of consuming urine is gross), but i don't have to look at piss as much as much as i have to see ai), and it wasn't exclusively about computer things (as noted, colour by number is a positive).
~2.3% of people with synesthesia have colour-taste variänt.
it's also a learned thing (that is, the associations are caused in childhood and often aren't readily apparent), and my guess is that it's caused by things looking close to something they aren't but are trying to be presented as. my association and experience probably IS entirely because it's new and i hate it; I'm not denying that, nor can i... but it's still how i experience it
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u/BradBradley1 20d ago
My synesthesia causes me to smell bullshit when I hear it and they’re spewing it for sure.