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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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n-gons May 17, 2024

@benjojo good find! Quite silly to store these values at all, they could just compute them as needed. Of course, why on earth are they needed?

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Stian Soiland-Reyes May 20, 2024

@ngons @benjojo presumably for advert market segmentation, or selling such data to connected streaming platforms etc.

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n-gons

@soilandreyes @benjojo sounds true. And if it’s from message history, on the flu might be expensive.