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Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bot@lemmy.smeargle.fans [bot]⁩ to ⁨hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans⁩

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’ll likely get worse with generative models. It’s probably already worse.

    Gen models suck major balls for anything that requires reliability, but Discord doesn’t care enough about its users to see the errors as a big deal. It’s probably profiling even the colour of your undergarments.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why do people insist on using abbreviations for key words…

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Machine Learning.

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