Do you need me to link you to the specific aspects of the algorithm diagrammed above? Are you really that lazy that you can’t look over it yourself?

Lol, no. You are the supposed algorithm expert, so tell me how what I saw in the code is wrong. It looks right to me, so unless you explain what its missing, then you will the one taking the L and moving on. ✌️

Ok, I checked it. Looks legit. Now what?

I’m done with this circular argument. Let me know when you want to actually prove you know what the fuck you’re talking about by getting into the specifics of the mechanics of the diagram that are illogical, in detail as opposed to vague generalities. Why would someone not apply a bloom filter to filter out posts you’ve already seen? Why would you not use connecting lines to show the aspects that are impacted by the user? You continue to refuse to get specific, and just keep going back to “trust me bro”. If that’s all you plan on returning to, let me know so I can stop wasting my time here.

Ok, your points are all 100% right and I’m too much of a dumb fuck pleb on the subject to argue. Your dick is made of gold, and I will suck it on cue for you, whenever you want.

Now go ahead and explain how I, or you, or anyone else, could prove that this is not implemented as described.

Lol, just keep dodging the questions, mr expert senior dev. Really convincing me of your expertise. 💩

How can I prove it, when I don’t have access to the code? Please, tell me how I would prove it, specifically.

All I am literally asking is “why doesn’t this make sense”, and your response is “well you see, I’m an expert, so trust me bro”. Fuck off.

Ah yes, I’m sure once I understand how something irrelevant to this diagrams functionality works, I will then see why you’re right… I will take your refusal to simply define the thing you are critiquing and explain it a bit more as a concession that you’re actually full of shit.

Do me a favor here, as a self proclaimed expert. Define a bloom filter, and then explain to me, a stupid pleb, why it would not work in this context. Cause from everything I have read on them, the description in this diagram is literally what it is used for.

Are you really asking me to take a video of me using the app for an extended period of time and analyzing the results to determine if it lines up with the various details of the algorithm outlined above? Cause I’m not really sure how else I would prove that its actually implemented as described.

I have not flipped the question, I am just genuinely curious of the details you find hard to believe here. It all seems quite straight forward and understandable to me. Complex, sure, but again, they have done a lot of impressive work already, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that it is implemented as described. Or at the very least, that’s what they’re working towards. I would love to hear you, a self proclaimed expert on the subject, explain the details that don’t work, other than “I tried and its hard”.

I just explained how the things you claim don’t make sense, do in fact make sense. Saying “this does not make sense” implies you don’t understand it. I have seen plenty of AI slop, and this is not it.

You didn’t use the term “bloom filter”, the diagram did. I know what it is, and it makes perfect sense in the context, so it’s really weird that you would claim it doesn’t. The fancy words I was referring to was “predicate function” and “asymmetrical”. Both are jargon words/phrases that don’t add anything to your statement as far as illuminating your point, but make you sound smart.

The thing to me that is not really amusing at all, but very annoying, is when someone has experience in a technical field, but then think that experience makes them an expert in every other field that might be tangentially related, and uses that assumption to pedantically (and often erroneously) dissect and dismiss the work of others.

Saying you tried something simpler and it was hard is not proof that this implementation is a fraud. If anything, it just makes you look less credible yourself. If you have specific aspects you can point to that are impractical, and the technical reasons they wouldn’t work, feel free, but it’s not a dodge to say that the diagram makes sense and this team had done a lot of impressive work already.

How do you know it’s not?

K

Seriously though, it’s literally already implemented. Might be too complex for you to implement, but apparently not for them.

“Because I did something substantially simpler than this, and struggled to get it done, they must be lying.”

K

“I failed at making something, therefore someone else could certainly not make something more complex than the thing I failed at”

K

Just because you overanalyzed something to the point of confusing yourself does not mean that it is AI slop, or equally confusing for others.

To address the specific points you raised as “evidence” of AI:

• The two top categories have lines going to them because those are the things that a user controls with their activity on the platform. Prior to that, the “for you” recommendation engine is not active, since it has nothing to base it’s recommendations on. Seems pretty clear to me.
• Time decayed, in the context of that category means when you last interacted with a post. If you haven’t interacted with a post for a while, it will no longer show up in your for you feed. Again, really quite straight forward.
• What about filtering hidden creators makes no sense? You hide a creator, they don’t show up in your feed. That’s one aspect of personalization, from the start, the rest of it is the two categories that, once they make it past the “hidden creator” filter, determine how likely it is to show up.
• Bloom filter is literally explained right there, it’s if you have seen a post yet or not. Lemmy clearly does not have this sort of filter, because you keep seeing the same shit over and over until it drops off from whatever category of the feed you’re viewing. Really not sure what is hard to understand there.

You’re using a lot of fancy words in your analysis here, but the actual analysis is nonsensical. Almost makes me wonder if you yourself are actually a bot.

“Everything I don’t like is AI”