Elon Musk to open source X algorithm in 7 days amid global scrutiny
The company has been working to incorporate more AI into its recommendation algorithm through Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot
Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.
“This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed,” Musk, who owns X, said in a post on the platform.
The billionaire did not say why X was making its algorithm open source. He and the company have clashed several times with regulators over content being shown to users.
Some X users had previously complained that they were receiving fewer posts on the social media platform from people they follow. In October, Musk confirmed in a post on X that the company had found a “significant bug” in the platform’s “For You” algorithm and pledged a fix.
The company has also been working to incorporate more artificial intelligence into its recommendation algorithm for X, using Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot.
Musk has promised in recent years to make some of X’s algorithms public, but the follow-through has been spotty.