Instagram Rolls Out Option To Reset Recommendation Algorithm (techcrunch.com) 15
Instagram is introducing a feature that allows users to reset their content recommendations, offering a fresh start for the algorithm to relearn their preferences based on new interactions. Instagram says the feature is rolling out globally "soon." TechCrunch reports: The feature is geared toward users who feel like their content recommendations no longer cater to their interests. For instance, you may have liked recipe videos in the past but are no longer interested in them, yet that sort of content may be all you see on your Reels and Explore pages. Once you reset your Instagram recommendations, your content recommendations will start to personalize again over time based on the posts and accounts you interact with. If you choose to reset your recommendations, you will have the option to review your following list to unfollow accounts that share content you're no longer interested in. "I want to be clear, this is a big thing to do," said Instagram head Adam Mosseri. "It's going to make your Instagram much less interesting at first, because we're going to treat you as if we know nothing about your interests and it will take some time to learn those again. So it's not something I recommend doing all the time -- but if you do end up in a place where you really don't feel good about your experience, this gives you an out."
A way out you say? (Score:3)
[...] but if you do end up in a place where you really don't feel good about your experience, this gives you an out.
You know Adam, I think I can do you one better. ;)
Instagram veto button (Score:2)
1. Facebook/Instagram gets an immediate way to down vote lots of recent content a user has viewed
2. Facebook/Instagram gets detailed demographic information when people change their viewing preferences. I'd expect detecting when someone is pregnant is a huge marketing opportunity https://www.forbes.com/sites/k... [forbes.com]
3. Facebook/Instagram can then sooth the ruffled egos of helicopter moms and needing a campaign issue politicians by offering a 'simple reset button' for teenagers before the 'get radicalized' by c
All or nothing? (Score:2)
Surely allowing people to reset/remove individual topics would be a much better experience. Here's a list of all the things we know about you, and here's a delete button next to every item. Let's go.
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The list of things they know about you is probably the entirety of all your recorded actions, like dwell time, swipe speed, etc in addition to mere likes and channel/user page visits -- all fed into your very own neural net ad-targeting kernel.
Just my guess.
It's easier to just say wipe all the weights and start over than to allow you to pick from the list of thousands of trivial datapoints you gave it.
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Giving you a bullet-point list of all your interests, characteristics, and demographic info would seem creepy. Like "someone has constructed a dossier on me" vibes. You already know they have a dossier on you, but they don't want it to feel that way. A bit like suspension of disbelief. All you're supposed to feel when using the site is "Wow, that's a cool video."
You get a panic button to reset everything if it's no longer giving you that cool-video feeling. But they'll never tell you what they actually thin
Re: All or nothing? (Score:2)
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because the algorithm today is SO desperate to keep you locked in a rage bubble that it's nearly impossible to get it to show you something new.
Contrary to popularity, this is like being welcomed into the bar only to get your ass kicked for walking into a bar and asking for a drink. Every time.
The fuck is Instagram for again? I thought humans used it for something. Just can’t tell what.
Good (Score:2)
I commented on get-rich-quick-buy-my-course video on how it was bullshit and now that's all I get.
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I commented on get-rich-quick-buy-my-course video on how it was bullshit and now that's all I get.
This is literally ragebaiting. And it works.
LOL yeah right (Score:2)
Instagram already has the ability to report "not interested" on images. I've literally got thousands of images that I've done that with, but those exact same accounts / images / themes constantly pop up in my recommendeds regardless.
Instagram doesn't give two shits about listening to users. Facebook/Meta ruined Instagram.
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yeah and lets talk about the ADs LOL
Anyone else have a 'Following' tab? (Score:2)
I have zero ads, and only see the accounts I follow...by using the 'Following' tab/pulldown. (Seems to change occasionally, but basically at the top of my feed.)
I don't know if this is a 'Canadian Android' thing, my iPhone friends don't have this option, but for whatever reason it's there for me. So I have few complaints about IG oddly. (Well, the URL thing is ridiculous, but at least my feed is what I want.)
Algorithms are dumb (Score:2)
I was done some spectrometric colour calibration on a photo the other day and to do so I needed some details from the datasheet of the sensor in my camera. So I looked up the Sony CCD datasheet. Fast forward 2 days and I get nothing but adverts for CCD modules, items I have never bought and will never be in a position to need to buy, ever. Yet algorithms thing this is now my interest.
Yeah that's ads, but content is no better. I looked up the correct way to make a sewer connection so I could move the washing