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Are they using AI for that? algorithmic doesn't necessarily mean AI

Right after Musk bought twitter, the code for the algorithm was open sourced and I took a look at it. I don't know if it's still open today but anyways, there was some ML stuff in it at the time. I guess it would depend on what constitutes "AI" to European legislators.

> I don't know if it's still open today but anyways

I am p sure that they made like major major changes after they code dumped it. Considering "verified boosts" and "elon boosts" are very noticable, with the first being an confirmed "feature", I doubt the algorithm would even remotely work with data from nowadays.

Anyway, what I wanna say is that the last commit was over 2 years ago.

Yes, the AI behind X's "algorithm" has been heavily skewed towards favoring far right content. That much is obvious to anyone taking a look at the X front page. This should give some more grounds to a continent-wide ban on this platform, threatening our democracies with relentless propaganda.

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