ampersand filter on content

Does anyone know how to turn off the ampersand filter on the description content? Or what hook I need to access to do it?

The function in wordpress for content doesn’t do it. It’s gumming up a shortcode I’m trying to use.

Thanks for any insight anyone has!

The following does NOT work:

add_filter( 'the_content', 'filter_the_amp_content',100 );
  
function filter_the_amp_content( $content ) {
  
          $content =  str_replace("&","&",$content);
   
    return $content;
}