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Elon Musk announced that Twitter will use artificial intelligence to "detect and highlight the manipulation of public opinion" on the microblogging platform. It comes weeks after Musk was accused of pushing his tweets "above normal" by changing Twitter's algorithm to get more impressions. However, the CEO of Twitter dismissed the allegations. "In the coming months, we will be using AI to detect and highlight the manipulation of public opinion on this platform. Let's see what psi ops chat entails...," he said in a tweet. Also read: "Is it legal?" Musk at OpenAI, parent of ChatGPT; What is the reason for dissatisfaction?
In his latest updates, Musk shared that Twitter will open up all the code used to recommend tweets, and claimed that people at the company "didn't fully understand" the platform's algorithms because they are "too complicated."
"Our 'algorithm' is too complex and not fully understood internally. People will find out a lot of stupid things, but we'll fix problems as soon as they're discovered! We're developing a simplified approach to deliver more compelling tweets, but it's still a work in progress." work in progress. It will also be open source," he tweeted.
Open source makes code easily accessible to the public, who can then modify and redistribute it. It creates a decentralized and collaborative ecosystem that is relatively cheaper and is based on peer review and community production.
“Ensuring code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but should lead to a rapid improvement in the quality of recommendations. More importantly, we look forward to earning your trust," Musk added.
