Mastodawn

benjojo May 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:

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benjojo May 17, 2024

It also seems that the same archive has a guess at how old you are too, Discord has gotten this entirely wrong, except one time.

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_age": "35+",
  "probability": 0.7547529339790344,
  "prob_13_17": 0.0005852651665918529,
  "prob_18_24": 0.014580278657376766,
  "prob_25_34": 0.23008151352405548,
  "prob_35_over": 0.7547529339790344,
  "model_version": "2024-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-03-27 00:00:00 UTC"
}

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Alexis

@benjojo I find it oddly soothing to have my *years-old at this point* sketchy feeling about Discord's data collection strategies vindicated.

This sort of shit is why I never used Discord after I saw you couldn't disable the collection of data related to the games you play, only if they told your friends list about it.