benjojoMay 17, 2024

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{ "user_id": "282657081457115136", "predicted_gender": "male", "probability": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961, "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881, "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778, "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z", "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC" }

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

Show threadMia Rose 🖋️ Slowly Writing That Second Draft | 🎓 B.Sc. (useless)May 17, 2024

@benjojo pretty sure that will violate GDPR

there is no reason to collect this data

Show threadbenjojoMay 17, 2024
@MiaWinter I suspect(?) there is some argument that so as long as they are calculating the data out of things like chat logs or whatever, rather than directly collecting that data, then it's fine.
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Show threadMia Rose 🖋️ Slowly Writing That Second Draft | 🎓 B.Sc. (useless)May 17, 2024

@benjojo It certainly is them trying to get around it

but one would have to challenge this shit (other social medias do it as well and idk if there is a ruling on that yet)

Show threadKaitlyn~Ethylia  May 17, 2024

@MiaWinter @benjojo whether legal or not, I’d rather not have AIs constantly being fed my conversations, especially when it’s trying to infer more information about me that I didn’t choose to disclose.

Unfortunately until a reasonable discord alternative exists, I have no choice, and it’s not only discord, so it’s just inescapable

Show threadMia Rose 🖋️ Slowly Writing That Second Draft | 🎓 B.Sc. (useless)

@KaitlynEthylia @benjojo tbh I just stopped using discord for anything but video calls...

Don't really have a use for much else these days

May 17, 2024 at 10:15amWeb