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The challenge with publishing the algorithm in the hopes of increased transparency and a broader understanding is that it is still impenetrably complicated to t
by pdinny 4y ago
The challenge with publishing the algorithm in the hopes of increased transparency and a broader understanding is that it is still impenetrably complicated to the average user.
Even with an open source algorithm the results on the feed for an individual may still seem opaque based on the input data and the metadata for that input data (not all of which would necessarily be visible).
Wouldn't it be better to have some explanation along the lines of "Why am I seeing this ad?" which is presumably more immediately useful to a larger audience.
- snarkyturtle 4y agoYep, it's gonna just be like when they "open-sourced" their image cropping algorithm and it's just that they provided the model and didn't specify their training data. Granted, yes, you can provide analysis like they did on Github [1] but you don't know _why_ it's outputting something. [1]: https://github.com/twitter-research/image-crop-analysis https://github.com/twitter-research/image-crop-analysis