How Meta trains large language models (LLM)
Adi Gangidi, KR Kishore, and Jenya Lee from Meta outline in the blog post “How Meta trains large language models at scale” Meta’s infrastructure advancements...
AliExpress faces DSA investigations as the first marketplace in Europe
We reported about the Digital Service Act (DSA) and its implications for recommendations and e-commerce previously. As the European Commission reports, there is now the...
Will Spotify soon allow users to disable personalized recommendations?
MacRumors reports that one of their readers found an option to disable personalized recommendations in Spotify’s Beta code. Spotify is exploring a new option that...
Amnesty International warns that TikTok’s recommendations push children towards harmful mental health
In a press release and two reports (Driven into Darkness and “I feel Exposed”), Amnesty International strongly criticizes the recommender system of TikTok. I have...
The Impact of the Digital Services Act (DSA) on Recommender Systems [Mozilla]
Mozilla and Verfassungsblog have released an interesting article on how the European Union’s Digital Service Act (DSA) may impact recommender systems. Here is a summary...
YouTube changes content recommendations to enhance ‘Teen Wellbeing’
James Beser, Director of Product Management YouTube Kids and Youth, reports that YouTube has updated its recommender system to better cater to the needs of...
Zalando publishes its RESTful API and Event Guidelines
It’s a bit off-topic, but since APIs have some relevance for recommender systems, this is worthwhile news*: Zalando – one of the world’s largest fashion...
Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change that. [Press Release Colorado U]
The University of Colorado Boulder released a press release about the well-known recommender-systems researcher Robin Burke, titled “Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change...
The effect of the Digital Services Act (DSA) on recommender systems in the EU
Luca Bertuzzi at Euractiv writes about the Digital Services Act (DSA), and how this would affect recommender systems. […] Schaldemose wanted to turn off online...
An update to dislikes on YouTube and it’s use in the recommender system
Some recommender systems rely on explicit feedback like user ratings or likes and dislikes. YouTube recently decided to not show the count of dislikes on...