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 which posts and ads are recommended to users.
“This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with detailed notes for developers, to help you understand what has changed,” said Musk, owner of X, in a post on the platform.
The billionaire did not explain why X was making its algorithm open source. He and the company have clashed several times with regulatory bodies regarding the content displayed to users.
Some Google X users had previously complained that they were receiving fewer posts on the social media platform from people they followed.
In October, Musk confirmed in a post on Google X that the company had found a “significant bug” in the platform’s “For You” algorithm and promised to fix it.
X: Artificial intelligence
The company has also been working to incorporate more artificial intelligence into its recommendation algorithm for the X, using Grok, Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot.
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Musk has promised in recent years to make some of X’s algorithms public, but fulfillment of this promise has been uneven.
In September, Musk wrote that the goal was for X’s recommendation engine to be “purely AI” and that the company would share its open-source algorithm approximately every two weeks.
“To the extent that people are seeing improvements in their feeds, it is not due to the actions of specific individuals changing heuristics, but rather the increasing use of Grok and other AI tools,” Musk wrote in October.
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The company was working to get all of the more than 100 million daily posts published to X , which would then offer individual users the posts most likely to interest them, Musk wrote.
“This will profoundly improve the quality of your feed.” He added that the company planned to release the new features by November.
Grok
Grok’s imaging capabilities have come under fire from global regulators due to a recent wave of AI-generated images that sexualize women and children on the X platform.
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From Friday, the to generate and edit images. These resources were initially available for free on X, with daily limits.
Indonesia blocked access to Grok following an investigation into the AI system’s generation of sexual content. This week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer demanded that Musk’s company X urgently “get organized” regarding sexualized images.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall warned in a statement on Friday that the government could “block access to services in the UK if they refuse to comply with UK law”.
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European regulators, in particular, have stepped up oversight of the company, focusing on misinformation, inadequate content moderation and transparency deficiencies.
In July, French authorities asked the company to share its algorithm as part of an investigation into allegations of bias and manipulation.
At the time, X stated that it would not comply with the request, accusing the investigation of being politically motivated.
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