“We will open source the new ð algorithm… within seven days,” says Elon Musk posted on X.com on Saturday. Musk says this “includes all code used to determine which organic and ad messages are recommended to users,” and “This will repeat every four weeks, with extensive developer notes, to help you understand what’s changed.”A bit of context out Engadget:
Musk has made promises to open source the algorithm since his acquisition of Twitter, and in 2023 he published the code for the site’s ‘For You’ feed on GitHub. But the code wasn’t that revealing and left out important details. according to analyzes at the time. And it is not kept up to date.
Bloomberg also reported this on Saturday:
The billionaire did not say why X made his algorithm open source. He and the company have clashed several times with regulators over content shown to users.
Some X users had previously complained about receiving fewer messages on the social media platform from people they follow. In October, Musk confirmed in a post on The company has also been working to incorporate more artificial intelligence into its recommendation algorithm for X, using Grok, Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot…
In September, Musk wrote that the goal was for X’s recommendation engine to be “pure AI” and for the company to share its open source algorithm approximately every two weeks. “To the extent that people are seeing improvements in their feed, it is not due to the actions of specific individuals changing the heuristics, but rather due to increased use of Grok and other AI tools,” Musk said. wrote in October. The company was working to have Grok evaluate all of the more than 100 million daily posts published on X, giving individual users the posts most likely to interest them, Musk wrote. “This will significantly improve the quality of your feed.” He added that the company planned to roll out the new features by November.
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