Sunsetting Arbitrary Models: A Necessary Evolution for Graze Social

Overview

Graze Social is temporarily sunsetting our "textarbitrary" and "imagearbitrary" zero-shot classification features on October 5, 2025. We first announced this deprecation on September 14th to give feed builders time to migrate. While these tools have been valuable, they've become unsustainable for our infrastructure. We're replacing them with optimized default categories and will introduce an improved arbitrary classification system in the coming weeks.

Why This Change Is Necessary

Over the past few months, we've achieved significant infrastructure improvements:

60% reduction in average feed latency (time from post creation to feed inclusion)
70% reduction in operational costs

However, the arbitrary models have become a bottleneck:

While only 2-5% of feeds use these features
They consume 95% of our compute budget
Each zero-shot classification requires hundreds of individual calculations per post, compared to about a dozen for our default models

This imbalance threatens the quality of service for our entire ecosystem, making this sunset necessary for Graze's long-term health.

Migration Path

Finding affected feeds

Simply log into to Graze Social - if your feeds are affected, you'll see an alert on your dashboard:

Clicking on that alert will take you to an account page that will directly list the affected feeds - go through them one by one to address the fixes needed. Either delete the rules, or make your categorizations exactly the text shown below in the new categories. Once completed, this dialog will disappear.

Alternative Filters

Text Similarity Node: Our recommended replacement

Provide "anchor sentences" to test against post text and image alt text
Achieves similar targeting capabilities safely and at scale
Works for any text-based classification you can imagine

New Default Categories: Pre-trained classifications based on the most common use cases from arbitrary nodes

Available Categories

When the sunset occurs, feeds using arbitrary nodes will automatically evaluate against these new categories (assuming a score of 0 for non-matching content):

Text Categories:

[ "Academic & Intellectual", "Adult & Sexual Content", "AI & Machine Learning", "Animals", "Arts & Creative", "Aviation & Maritime", "Data & Computing", "Entertainment & Culture", "Film & TV", "Food & Beverages", "Food & Lifestyle", "Game Development", "Gaming", "Healthcare & Medicine", "Medical Education", "Medical Specialties", "Music", "Nature & Outdoors", "News & Media", "Politics", "Programming", "Society & Culture", "Software Development", "Sports", "Visual Arts" ]

Image Categories:

Timeline

September 14, 2025: Deprecation notice first shown to users
Now through October 5, 2025: Migrate your feeds to use text similarity nodes or default categories
October 5, 2025: Arbitrary models will be turned off
Coming weeks: New and improved arbitrary classification system will be launched

Our Commitment

We remain committed to providing best-in-class tools for feed builders on ATProto. This temporary sunset allows us to rebuild these features in a way that's sustainable and scalable for everyone in the Graze ecosystem. The new system will provide similar capabilities while maintaining the performance improvements we've achieved.

If you need assistance migrating your feeds, please reach out to our support team.

Updated on: 09/10/2025

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