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Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by barbazoo »

ivape wrote: post #50
barbazoo wrote: post #29

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Elon’s father was not keen on him leaving South Africa from what I recall. There was an element of daddy doesn’t believe in me . He left against his fathers wishes. https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-errol-musk-relat... ’“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon, 46, told the magazine. “You have no idea.”’ Daddy issues out the ass. This is actually the simplest answer, because people that pursue external va…

Sucks, dads, please show your children that you love them unconditionally.

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by burnte »

ivape wrote: post #43
echelon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Republican, Democrat, and Elon. Wow.

Is this real? We accept that the algorithm may link you abstractly with other people, but I didn’t think they were literally labeling on this level. If you just say “we look for what’s similar and leave it at that”, then there’s much less liability. This is political targeting. This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly?

Yes, he really had twitter change their code to push his tweets more.

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by jsheard »

burnte wrote: post #52
ivape wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this real? We accept that the algorithm may link you abstractly with other people, but I didn’t think they were literally labeling on this level. If you just say “we look for what’s similar and leave it at that”, then there’s much less liability. This is political targeting. This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly?

Yes, he really had twitter change their code to push his tweets more.

They seem to have dialed the overt Elon boosting down now but it's still conspicuously aligned with his priorities. I just made a fresh burner account to see what the algorithm is primed to push by default nowadays, and about 80% of the feed is anti-immigration ragebait.

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by viraptor »

jjordan wrote: post #18
h1fra wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can't, and it's 100% sure it's not this code running in prod

100% huh? That's a bold statement with no supporting evidence.

Already posted above: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/c54bec0d4e029f...

It's redacted.

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by Raed667 »

barbazoo wrote: post #49
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #7

Just like with their last release, they only released the architecture and not the weights. It may be useful for analyzing the system if you're a competitor (but from my last dive into it, it seemed like a strict subset of fancier, industry-leading rec systems), or perhaps getting into rec / retrieval systems as a newcomer. However, this gives roughly zero insight into how Twitter's feed behaves.

Not only no weights. Not sure what people's expectations are but a lot of the time this isn't even valid code with all the redaction they did [1]. I'm confused as to who this is for, this surely isn't the repo they're working on, is it? [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...

This is 100% for headlines and Musk to be able to say "we're open" during interviews. Its actual usefulness is not the point

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by uyzstvqs »

jsheard wrote: post #5

RIP author_is_elon, we hardly knew ye. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236

The file in question is now here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixe...

author_is_elon, author_is_democrat, and author_is_republican are in fact gone. Now there is grok_politics_neutral, grok_politics_left, and grok_politics_right. This is in addition to a whole group of other categories, such as grok_category_sports and grok_category_music. All are based on annotations by Grok.

Importantly, this file is not used for recommendations. Everything in this file is only used for "metrics tracking purposes to measure how often we serve posts with various attributes." This would also have applied to author_is_elon.

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by nativeit »

barbazoo wrote: post #49
Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #7

Just like with their last release, they only released the architecture and not the weights. It may be useful for analyzing the system if you're a competitor (but from my last dive into it, it seemed like a strict subset of fancier, industry-leading rec systems), or perhaps getting into rec / retrieval systems as a newcomer. However, this gives roughly zero insight into how Twitter's feed behaves.

Not only no weights. Not sure what people's expectations are but a lot of the time this isn't even valid code with all the redaction they did [1]. I'm confused as to who this is for, this surely isn't the repo they're working on, is it? [1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...

I know when I think “open source”, I am always thinking “heavily redacted”.

/s

Re: Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

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Post by luma »

cma wrote: post #20
cubefox wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the Grok prompts are also open source: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts

Did they ever open source in there the stuff that was making Grok search for Musk's opinion before giving an opinion on world news?

Nope, nor did that repo have the system prompts that brought is MechaHitler, nor the time earlier this year where it started injecting Trump into every completion.

The Grok repo is a smokescreen for deniability (just not particularly plausible).

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