Understanding Machine Taste: Aesthetic Agreement Across Foundation Models in K-pop

arXiv:2610.17731 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures, 14 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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