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[-] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty certain the shorts algorithm is kind of "its own thing" in a lot of ways. It's a prime "your mileage may vary" system, and because so many right wing creators upload to it, it's basically a numbers game unless you get lucky with the algorithm when it's first getting a handle on your preferences.

While I don't know this for certain, the only really effective way to get the algorithm to stop showing you something is to literally close the app for a while when it puts one in front of you. Combined with searching up shorts for the stuff you want, I think it's possible but it's really persistent if it thinks it should show you specific kinds of content.

At the end of the day, however, they're machine learning models, and while we can gesture at trends, nobody knows the full ins and outs of how a specific model makes its decisions. Kind of scary that we trust them to the role of curation in the current environment at all to be honest

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