| ▲ | jsheard 3 days ago |
| RIP author_is_elon, we hardly knew ye. https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236 |
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| ▲ | uyzstvqs 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | 0points 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Oh my god lolollol author_is_elon author_is_power_user author_is_democrat author_is_republican |
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| ▲ | echelon 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Republican, Democrat, and Elon. Wow. |
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| ▲ | SXX 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | South Park: The Game level of irony. | |
| ▲ | hereme888 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Rep, Dem, and "America Party". | |
| ▲ | 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | ivape 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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? | | |
| ▲ | burnte 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, he really had twitter change their code to push his tweets more. | | |
| ▲ | jsheard 3 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | mrguyorama 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I think that's just an accurate and mostly genuine indicator of who is left on twitter nowadays. The people left on twitter earnestly believe that it is better now that you can shout racial slurs at people, buy your way to the top of any chain, get literally paid for ragebait, and genuinely think this repo is meaningful. It's a massive self selection bias. | | |
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| ▲ | 0points 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > This guy was one of the biggest political donors, how can this fly? The system is rigged. Haven't you noticed yet? | |
| ▲ | frabcus 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Looks pretty real: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... When this started it really put me off X - I'd have tolerated, and almost liked the idea, of a freedom of speeech place. But a place that boosts its owners posts... Nope. I'm out - it's such a big personal diss of me, I'm not interested any more. | |
| ▲ | bongodongobob 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | You do realize people officially register as party members right? I have no idea why this upsets you. It's just categorization. I fucking hope my feeds do this, I do not want to see maga trash. |
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