Discord is allegedly assigning gender to users with machine learning AI - Dexerto
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Discord might be using machine learning to predict the gender and age group of its users, allege several users on X.

Extremely creepy. Queued my account for deletion. Matrix it is.

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    From the article, it seems like it isn’t overriding preferences if you have it set in the app. Looks like it’s an analytics thing in the backend at the moment. Of course, I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually require ID if your settings don’t match their prediction.