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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Someone should make some sort of open social media algorithm that runs on your side and federated social media could use it. If thats possible.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago

@phanpy@hachyderm.io's "catch-up" feature is basically that.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Whilst I like the concept, doesn't such algorithm need access to a huge amount of data (i.e. a large set of potential posts from which to choose), if so how could this run client side?
Maybe could envisage something running in a parallel distributed federated way (vaguely recalling projects like seti@home or climateprediction.net), grouping results for sets of people with similar preferences, with minor local tweaks and short-term updates - but that implies many interacting layers, rather complex.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

Yeah i get what youre saying. Thats why i said if its possible. Idk how they algorithms work as that really isnt my field but someone can def figure something out in the future, i hope at least.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

It'll be a one-page document that says "We do whatever Elon tells us to do. Consistency is not required."

And that's why Musk (and Zuck etc.) try to strengthen anti-EU parties.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... a discussion Musk conducted last week with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, in which she was given free rein to promote her party’s platform and make false claims about Adolf Hitler, ...

Elon searched online for the nearest Nazi bar, and went there on purpose to talk to Nazis about Nazi things.

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

Such a nazi thing to do.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Good start, but 'Documents' is the wrong, bureaucratic approach - if there are any papers they will be vague and old. The algorithm is code, and just a few characters adjusted in an obscure place can make a huge difference. I recall twitter published their old algorithm - scala code - a couple of years back, so what we need is a continuous update of that, together with some testing mechanism to check that it's really the same as applied on their servers, without extra secret please-boss-backdoor-tweaks. Of course even better in the longer term - attract people away to the fediverse.
Meanwhile more general problem - european union doesn't support enough people who understand such code.
Note also some good comments below the article.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Meanwhile more general problem - european union doesn't support enough people who understand such code.

Could you elaborate on that? In what way does the EU not support those people?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago

Because they can't afford them

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my experience working in FAANG, the docs are worth a lot more than the code. The code for the algorithm might be affected by thousands of different things, but the docs would give an overview.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

It seems to me you are assuming an honest process - at least a concept of accountability to shareholders or some open governing body. In this case, one megalomaniac guy is now in charge, so to have any trust that documents are really applied to such algorithms we'd need an open, verifiable testing system - doubt it'd happen but it's maybe worth the EU requesting that.