The sources

Chapter 16. Taste

8 sources behind this chapter. Each one carries a note on what it is doing in the argument.

The chapter itself, for readers of the book

  1. Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?

    Gazaille, Julie UdeMnouvelles, Université de Montréal, 21 January 2026

    The official Université de Montréal news release containing Karim Jerbi’s quoted interpretation of the creativity study: ‘Even though AI can now reach human-level creativity on certain tests, we need to move beyond this misleading sense of competition.’ The primary Scientific Reports study is listed separately under Chapters 5 and 16.

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    Gazaille, Julie. 'Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?' UdeMnouvelles, Université de Montréal, 21 January 2026.

  3. The Rise of Taste

    Debris Studio debris.studio/the-rise-of-taste, 2026

    A companion essay on taste becoming more valuable as production becomes easier. The chapter uses this shift from making to choosing as part of its commercial argument.

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    Debris Studio. 'The Rise of Taste.' 2026. debris.studio/the-rise-of-taste

  4. AI Can Learn Scientific Taste

    Tong et al arXiv:2603.14473, 15 March 2026

    A deliberate challenge to the chapter’s thesis. The paper asks whether models can learn scientific taste, forcing a sharper distinction between recognising valued patterns and living with the consequences of choosing them.

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    Tong et al. 'AI Can Learn Scientific Taste.' arXiv:2603.14473, 15 March 2026.

  5. The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence in Film Post Production and the Impact on the Creative Economy

    Starkey, Richard MFA research report, AFDA Cape Town, 2020

    Directly cited in Chapters 7, 8 and 16. Its broken junior-development pipeline informed Chapter 24 during development, but that prose block was removed; retained under Other Sources as supporting background.

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    Starkey, Richard. The 4th Industrial Revolution: Artificial Intelligence in Film Post Production and the Impact on the Creative Economy. MFA research report, AFDA Cape Town, 2020.

  6. No Wincing Allowed: Dede Allen, the Director’s Editor

    Lewis, Kevin CineMontage, 2007

    The 2007 CineMontage interview/profile directly behind Chapter 16’s ‘cutting from the gut’ passage. Allen explains that she often edited silently and describes leaving the death-of-Sunshine sequence in Little Big Man without sound because the silent cut moved her.

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    Lewis, Kevin. 'No Wincing Allowed: Dede Allen, the Director's Editor.' CineMontage, 1 May 2007.

  7. Divergent creativity in humans and large language models

    Bellemare-Pepin, A., Lespinasse, F., Tholke, P., Harel, Y., Mathewson, K., Olson, J. A., Bengio, Y. and Jerbi, K Scientific Reports, 21 January 2026

    The primary study behind the creativity comparison used in Chapters 5 and 16: some AI systems surpassed average human performance on the tested divergent-creativity tasks, while the most creative half and top 10% of human participants still outperformed every model tested. Karim Jerbi’s quoted interpretation in Chapter 16 comes from the separate Université de Montréal news release listed there.

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    Bellemare-Pepin, A., Lespinasse, F., Tholke, P., Harel, Y., Mathewson, K., Olson, J. A., Bengio, Y. and Jerbi, K. 'Divergent creativity in humans and large language models.' Scientific Reports, 21 January 2026. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25157-3. (Universite de Montreal-led collaboration with Concordia, Toronto Mississauga, Mila and Google DeepMind.)

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