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.

  • Mazoku@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh cool the 100th article about Discord being a hot pile of dogshit.

    Well everyone will still use it anyways

          • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            thats the fun part, you don’t.

            there will always be alternatives that are a fraction as bad as the current options but nobody will ever use them.

            case in point: people still use twitter.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The alternative is IRC. I’m not sure why that’s not an option anymore when Discord is just IRC with a few extra features.

            • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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              2 months ago

              IRC’s netsplits still haunt me in my sleep. jk

              At least then when someone was considered a nuissance they got kickbaned instead of their account deleted because someone somewhere somehow got offended. Thicker skin crowd i guess, did allow for more discourse.

              In IRC’s heyday online communication was mostly centered in groups (the channels) rather than 1:1. In the age of whatsapp 1:1 is king, kinda sad. It’s my perception at least.

              I still do think XMPP is a better IRC though, more modern.

      • rab@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s like everyone forgot teamspeak exists overnight

    • elleybirdy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Lemmy users get so precious about privacy when it comes to every company except the ones that would be inconvenient for them to stop using.