Instagram Rolls Out Option To Reset Recommendation Algorithm (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/217255/instagram-rolls-out-option-to-reset-recommendation-algorithm
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/instagram-will-soon-let-you-reset-your-recommendation-algorithm/
> 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."
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/instagram-will-soon-let-you-reset-your-recommendation-algorithm/
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.
Re: (Score:1)
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.
Re: (Score:1)
They'd never want you to how you how much detail they have about you to allow such a useful option.
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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)
You can already do pretty much that, it's just a PITA to go through and delete all your comments, likes, shares, dislikes, blocks, etc. Having an easy option to just start from clean slate without deleting your account would be nice. And contrary to her claim, have a fresh feed is MORE interesting 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.
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.
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.
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. ;)