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Creative AI should clear friction, not make the taste call

The useful role for creative AI is not to declare what looks good. Google's fashion post says the tool can remove friction from production first. Taste and final judgment still belong to people.

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Yeawon Choi's Google fashion post presents AI as a way to reduce friction during production. The source takeaway keeps taste and final judgment with people. That supports a narrow claim about the order of creative work: use the tool to make production easier, then let people judge the result. The digest does not provide measured time savings or evidence that the approach improves the final design.

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Title
Co-creating the future of fashion with Google
Author
Yeawon Choi
Date
Friday, September 18, 2026