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korendian@lemmy.zip 1 week agoJust because you overanalyzed something to the point of confusing yourself does not mean that it is AI slop, or equally confusing for other.
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.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think you might have missed my point. I wasn’t listing stuff I had trouble understanding. I was listing stuff that didn’t make much a sense. The end result, even if you manage to excuse why it isn’t bad, still doesn’t result in anything useful or informative.
I’m also not using fancy words. The only fancy thing that stands out is the the “Bloom filter”, which isn’t a fancy word. It’s just a thing, in particular a data structure.
The most amusing and annoying thing about AI slop, is that it’s loved by people who don’t understand the subject. They confuse and observation of slop, with “ah, you just don’t get it”.
I design and implement systems and “algorithms” like this as part of my job. Communicating them efficiently is part of that job. If anyone came to me with this diagram (pre 2022), I’d be worried if they were OK. After 2022, my LLM-slop radar is pretty spot on.
korendian@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Let me ask you this tho. When you say “do in fact make sense”. Are you basing it that in the context of what you think this diagram is saying? Or do you mean “do in fact make sense” in the context of knowing how such an algorithm would be constructed?
You still keep missing my points. And they aren’t difficult points either. The fancy jargon words were a basic ass description of what a bloom filter does. So you’re kinda making my argument, why is funny, because you don’t get the argument either, and you won’t understand why it is funny either.
I’m not tangentially an expert for fucks sake. I’m the kind of expert that knows how to design what this diagram is trying to “explain”, and it comes across as if made by a toddler’s understanding.
korendian@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.