Twitter algorithm to be open sourced 'next week,' says Musk
Brookings said OSS algorithms could also be a boon for tech sector competition, could help define AI standards and, as Musk implied, help fight algorithmic bias by inviting others to examine the code and run it through algorithm interrogation software.Twitter's Community Notes team said yesterday that it was adding a new capability to the fact-checking feature: Notifications of new notes on things that users previously interacted with.
"Starting today, you'll get a heads up if a Community Note starts showing on a Tweet you've replied to, Liked or Retweeted. This helps give people extra context that they might otherwise miss." Community Notes enable Twitter users flagged as"contributors" to leave notes on a tweet providing more context. Other contributors can vote on a note as helpful or not, and once a certain threshold of positive ratings is reached the note becomes publicly shown on the tweet.
Qualifications for becoming a contributor are minimal: you need to have a phone number on your account, no recent Twitter violations, to have been on the platform for a certain amount of time, etc. Twitter does claim to review all applications, and says it rates notes based on contributions of people with different points of view, whichMusk didn't take credit for the feature, instead praising the work done by the Community Notes team.
Obviously, it and other tech industry giants don't want to lose this case, as it could mean they're held liable for the behavior of their algorithms. It's likely Musk doesn't want to face that kind of liability at Twitter either, given its
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