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They should have to publish everything required to independently reproduce the recommendations, given a user's inputs. If their code is spaghetti that makes th
by lupusreal 2y ago
They should have to publish everything required to independently reproduce the recommendations, given a user's inputs. If their code is spaghetti that makes this neigh impossible, that's their problem and they shouldn't be in business.
- gruez 2y ago>They should have to publish everything required to independently reproduce the recommendations, given a user's inputs. So they also have to give up all their user data?
- lupusreal 2y ago> given a user's inputs Meaning if I record my own inputs, I should be able to recreate the suggestions I see using the published software. This doesn't mean the inputs of other users are exposed to me, but it does imply that "the algorithm" can only use data that is either publicly exposed or is my own inputs.
- janalsncm 2y ago“The inputs” here is going to include every video, or at least a large subset of every video.
- brokenmachine 2y agoAlso how long a user spent watching each individual video, and what order they were watched in, and other info (whether they scrolled the view, etc). All that would be very hard/impossible to recreate in order to test the algorithm.
- lupusreal 2y agoThe videos themselves are public, and I think it would be good for all the relevant video metadata to be public as well.
- gruez 2y ago>but it does imply that "the algorithm" can only use data that is either publicly exposed or is my own inputs. That seems pretty restricting given that even the most basic recommendation would try to cluster users based on interests and use that to recommend stuff (eg. Amazon's "customers who viewed this item also bought..." from decades ago).