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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by rsanek on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:05PM (#42427666)
I wonder what kind of impact this would have on their ability to actually provide good ML recommendations. Based on reporting that would be a lot of data to give up
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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by xnx on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:10PM (#42427689)
The reporting I've seen is extremely dramatic about the data being collected. The most useful thing to the recommendation algorithm is interactions: number of loops before scroll, like, comment, share, etc.
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