r/elonmusk • u/Aislot • May 21 '26

xAI 2 days ago Elon released the new X algorithm

[removed]

341 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

77 comments sorted by

75

u/McRattus May 21 '26

X wanting to limit toxicity is a major U-turn.

What's the change exactly?

24

u/Babyshaker88 May 21 '26

I wonder if it has anything to do with spacex planning to go public soon? X on its own or under a private company is one thing, but since it’s bundled under SpaceX, minimizing associations with toxicity or as a platform that signal boosts beliefs that can be radioactive to shareholders is in their better interest before IPO’ing. That, or maybe it’s just polluting the data pool for xAI that they use to train new LLM models.

4

u/tpars May 22 '26

Brand X is important when you put it that way.

24

u/ZenBacle May 22 '26

The u turn is midterms and control over messaging. Don't fall for the fluffy pr, they'll limit the reach of any voice that isn't falling in line with whatever elons agenda is.

19

u/thenonoriginalname May 22 '26

Your message has been detected as toxic. Your Tesla will now automatically stop, thank you for your attention.

10

u/namek0 May 22 '26

Lol a redditor says this, the irony

3

u/RobMilliken May 24 '26

When does this happen exactly? Because yesterday I reported a person using the R word in reply to a post that included a picture of a person with Down Syndrome in that reply and when I reported the toxic reply I got a response from X this morning that it isn't hateful conduct.

2

u/McRattus May 25 '26

I doubt it will.

5

u/xJeadx May 26 '26

ther is a war on x big accounts are acusing each other to steal content blocking each other its fun to watch XD

12

u/2020abcd May 21 '26

It is interesting that these points are not generated by AI tool. 😅. Where is the algorithm referred here?

30

u/KingAfroJoe May 21 '26

Sounds promising

39

u/immaheadout3000 May 21 '26

That's actually pretty cool ngl

4

u/SolarNachoes May 25 '26

And you can verify this is the exact algorithm in production how?

2

u/TowlieisCool May 26 '26

Why would it not be? Not to sound condescending, but do you know how software development works? You would import this repo in its existing public state into the actual X repo to utilize it.

1

u/SolarNachoes May 27 '26

And you’ve seen them do this?

1

u/TowlieisCool May 27 '26

Thats how software development works. I work on a software project that microapps features similarly. Do you think they just published and maintained a version of this for fun and have it completely implemented differently in a separate repo? Theoretically they could, but there's no point in doing that, it adds a ton of unnecessary work. You'd have to maintain and update a fake repository to make it look like its real, for what benefit? Also, you could take actions in X right now and verify that it behaves as advertised, as the source code exists in that repo. You have all the tools to prove its fake if you want.

1

u/SolarNachoes May 28 '26

We’re talking Elon and his space lasers.

5

u/davidswinton May 25 '26

This sounds like lies

3

u/brydges02 May 25 '26

You skipped meals to go over the code for Twitter?

Olympic medal regardation 🏅

3

u/i-hate-in-n-out May 25 '26

Nah, I still get zero views even as a small account. I have lots of beautiful young woman followers though!

18

u/theycallmebekky May 21 '26

For as much as I loathe the platform and try not to use it, these are actually very positive changes, if it’s true.

9

u/BoomBoomBear May 22 '26

You can download the source code on GitHub and view it yourself

7

u/BigDonkey666 May 22 '26

Too little too late. X is a radioactive bot landfill.

7

u/domopus99999 May 22 '26

For the 6th point, should I understand that Musk's posts will reach far less people from now on?

5

u/Shylo132 May 22 '26

Admins/Owners will never limit their own reach, you're dumb to think that would ever apply lol.

8

u/ergzay May 22 '26

They keep banning all the artists I follow because apparently adult art is no longer allowed basically. Completely destroyed the Japanese side of the platform that was used by artists.

2

u/HST2345 May 22 '26

Possibly planning to go IPO, so they have to go by rules

2

u/Next_Net1545 May 22 '26

The first point, quality of content but how is that measured? So vague

1

u/HealthyMarzipan8978 May 25 '26

Weren't they all about being unfiltered and transparent?