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.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    Fair enough. I don’t use Discord so I’m not sure but my understanding is that it’s free to use. So how do they fund it? I presume by collecting user data to target advertising or to be sold to 3rd parties.

    My point here being that collecting data to figure out the user’s age and gender isn’t particularly uncommon.

    • efstajas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      It’s monetized through server boosts (upgrading a community to have premium features) and premium accounts that give users additional perks and features.