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Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Twitter rapidly approaching shitpost singularity #1983

Open ghost opened 7 months ago

ghost commented 7 months ago

Describe the bug Twitter is learning how to shitpost, and it's getting better and better- it takes brainrot memes, presents them to users and can somehow manipulate these users into creating more and more brainrot memes. The cycle is endless! We are rapidly approaching a shitpost singularity!

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Post a brainrot meme (true connoisseurs of brainrot shitposting prefer skibidon't toilet). Use an identifiable hashtag like "#shitpostsingularitygang"
  2. Repeat step 1 until the algorithm starts presenting your brainrot shitposts
  3. Watch as people begin doing the same
  4. Congrats, you have started a brainrot meme trend, now watch as "#shitpostsingularitygang" makes it to the trending tab
  5. The singularity is upon is

Expected behavior Sane people would see your memes and just ignore them. The algorithm has trained people into agents to carry out its will, however, so they instinctively repost and create their own memes.

Screenshots I have twitter.com set in my hosts file to resolve to 127.0.0.1, so I was unable to produce screenshots or actually use the platform (my source for this bug report was a dream I had last night)

Environment Using arch btw

Additional context All bow down to our shitpost algorithm overlords

juicemission commented 6 months ago

Im unable to reproduce this behavior on gentoo Linux

Marioood commented 6 months ago

I am unable to reproduce this on TempleOS.