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(CW: Transphobia) 'Giggle' is a social app created by TERFs, for TERFs. Let's destroy it. (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trans women are not allowed to use Giggle

It claims to enforce this by requiring users to "verify they are a female" by submitting an image to be analysed by AI

Giggle has a community called 'Gender Identity' for women who are de-transitioning only

The CEO/Founder of this flaming pile of garbage is a notorious TERF that made a name for herself after having a hissy fit about swimming pools

She's currently trying to get a journalist fired (for calling her a TERF)

There are many more examples of why this is a terrible thing run by a terrible person, but I'm sure you all get the point.

EDIT: Just found an article where she doubles down on EVERYTHING

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's definitely transphobic but I gotta say this is some impressive tech. The verification pic I took of my junk had pretty poor lighting and it still wouldn't let me sign up. Not sure why it thought I'd be wearing glasses on my penis but w/e.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

"Secured by gender verification" — Phrenology for transphobes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The obvious response is an app that uses 'AI' to filter out white people

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Or an app that uses AI to filter out terfs...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You could throw away the image and just reject any british IP addresses

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

connect with girls to form a giggle

yay! it's giggle time

sounds like it's for 5 year olds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

just used my own face for their ai recognition thing just to see if itd work and it fucking did lmao

i am now a TERF certified passing transgenderist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

bruh really it didn’t work for me and i’m a c*s woman

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

well im basically a bimbo so i guess you just gotta be a bimbo like me to get accepted

bimbo only app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

nope. ur a dude. the TERF queens declare it. im sorry. you've been wrong your entire life, sadly misled by your parents and school friends and doctors and lovers, maybe for decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Thats what happens when you base an AI on incorrect assumptions about people I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Please shove phone down your pants to continue

Also who wants to bet their AI shits all over the floor when it has to analyse a black person's face

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

who also wants to bet that it will let in some trans women but keep out some cis butch women?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

thats probably at least somewhat intentional :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The fact that Sall is literally reading this thread and absolutely seething is just :chefs-kiss:

Of course you're from the Gold Coast, Sall. The jokes write themselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Chapo.chat doesn't exactly have a wide distribution so the most likely scenario is someone sitting at home, hitting F5 continuously for any new mentions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

dearest ceo of terf tech,

:get-in::gui-trans:

sincerly, :chapochat-trans:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

New reminder (after the usage of facial recognition by the police during the protests of course, but also after the more recent twitter cropping thing) that most current AI computer vision software that exists have a racist and sexist bias. Joy Buolamwini and the now famous Timnit Gebru showed in 2018 that systems showing a >99% accuracy for gender classification were actually mostly evaluated on (and developed by?) white men, and that there was a 35 points drop in accuracy when evaluating on a black female dataset. Basically, if you're a black woman, there is a >1/3 chance that AI will classify you as a man.

(They re-evaluated the same software in a later paper showing that, compared to a control group of products that were not in the initial study, the fairness of the systems exposed improved over time. So it seems that even when it's through academic publications, bullying works.)

But with this app the additional problem is that the system misgendering someone will not even be considered as a bug, but precisely as a feature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Why call it 'giggle'

Such a cringe name :cringe:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I'm discriminating against people. tee-hee