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Musk has said many times that the algorithm is open source. This guy is suggesting an algorithm change but not actually showing one.

• jsheard 2y ago
  https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm - Last commit: July 13th, 2023 https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml - Last commit: April 6th, 2023 Either the algorithm hasn't been updated for over a year (unlikely) or the public version is abandoned.
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• CuriousCosmic 2y ago
  Sure it's open source but that doesn't mean the public repo is in any way up to date. Especially given that the repos only have a handful of commits from the few months after the repos were published and they haven't been updated in well over a year. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
• pms 2y ago
  The open-sourcing of the X's feed algorithm is a typical Musk's smokescreen. First, while the code was open sourced, the configs and data that determines its behavior wasn't. Any researcher that has some knowledge of the matter will tell you this. Second, that code was last updated in July 2023 [1]. News feed algorithms are updated regularly, especially around the time of US elections [2]. [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm [2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2983 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2983
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