Hands on with X’s new AI-powered custom feeds

X replaces its Communities feature with AI-curated custom feeds, introducing new Grok-powered timelines and advertising opportunities. | Contesto: cronaca

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In a significant platform overhaul, X has officially replaced its longstanding Communities feature with a new system of AI-powered custom timelines. The change, which took effect this week, introduces user-specific feeds curated by the company's Grok artificial intelligence system and integrates new advertising slots directly into these personalized streams. The move signals a strategic pivot away from user-moderated group spaces and toward algorithmically driven content discovery, fundamentally altering how users navigate the social media landscape. The now-defunct Communities allowed users to form and join interest-based groups, functioning as digital forums within the larger X ecosystem. Their removal marks the end of a more decentralized, user-led approach to content aggregation. In its place, the custom timelines promise a dynamic feed tailored to individual user interests, but one that is wholly generated and ranked by X's proprietary AI. Early analysis suggests this shift centralizes control over content flow and community dynamics with the platform itself, rather than vesting it in volunteer community moderators and members. Central to this new experience is Grok, X's in-house large language model. The AI is responsible for scanning the platform's vast real-time conversation to select, prioritize, and present posts it deems relevant to a user's inferred interests. This represents a deeper, more pervasive integration of AI into the core user experience than previous recommendation algorithms. While the company promises more relevant and engaging content, the opaque nature of AI curation raises immediate questions about filter bubbles, content diversity, and the potential for amplifying certain viewpoints while suppressing others without transparent human oversight. The commercial implications of the change are equally profound. The new custom timelines are designed with integrated advertising slots, creating a fresh and potentially highly targeted inventory for marketers. Because the feeds are built around specific user interests as interpreted by Grok, advertisers could theoretically place ads within contexts of heightened relevance. This development is...

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