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This new dating app will use facial recognition technology to exclude trans women
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
Who’d want to date anyone who uses this app anyways?
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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shhh let them all splinter between this, the right stuff, and christian mingle so they never procreate
So far the app has already banned a featherless hen and its own creator (seriously)
funny enough terfs already tried this once before and ran into literally the same problems.
Plot twist: she only wanted to come out as trans so she cooked up this ridiculous idea to out herdelh
The best part: The creator (a woman) couldn't even pass her own app's test; it said she was a man with 97% certainty. 🤣 TERF didn't check herself, and thus wrecked herself.
isn't this solving a problem that doesn't really exist? I'd have thought most trans people on dating apps would be fairly up front about it... you know for safety or even just expectations management? I can't speak from experience, my dating life predates the rise of dating apps
I was once downvoted to hell for expressing a similar sentiment on reddit.
Yes, trans folks tend to be pretty upfront for the reasons you mentioned.
This is just some hateful, bullshit, trans panic nonsense. Some people can't even handle the idea that they might as a matter of course be attracted to a trans person given the opportunity.
This tech will inevitably also exclude some slightly less normative appearing cis folks too, but they don't care because they just hate trans people.
I don't think atrificial intelligence will be needed, trans people will just use intelligence and not use this app.
I am not in the dating pool but I don't think I would try my luck on a dating app that exists solely to be bigoted.
That is exactly my point
Oh well I guess we both agree that selecting a romantic partner solely on the basis of what minority they hate is not a wise decision.
I fear this might be controversial
Meanwhile, the AI will be handing out false positives to TERFs and hilarity ensues. I see no downside here.
Now if we could have a dating app that excluded conservatives...
Wouldn't that just be a dating app for people under 35?
lots (not all!) of 20-30 year old men with shitty opinions these days thanks to gamergate and joe rogan....
Nope
Ok fine then I am out of ideas.
Also do you really want this? I mean I am glad me and my wife basically agree on politics but that is a really tiny part of our relationship. I can't imagine sitting on some app using selection bubbles to find girls who are perfectly aligned with my stance on every issue, knowing that this was the biggest reason why they are also there.
Me, personally? I have no horse in this race. I was just saying it’s inaccurate to imply that only under 25s are not conservative
Some daughters have the same face as their fathers, some sons have the same face as their mothers. How could this possibly work?
It's like claiming that you can identify homosexuality through facial recognition. There's no such thing as a "trans face". It's just a silly idea.
They said the same thing about gaydar but I already subscribe $9.95/month for the AI addon package for that. I already preorded the trantenna (trans antenna 🤣 ) for a cool $500 down. No price is too much to keep children safe... on dating service networks? Wait, I thought we hated trans people to save the children? There shouldn't be children on these sites anyways.
You know, TECHNICALLY, everybody is someone’s child. Mental gymnastics are an art form to these nutcases.
It won't, it's just a grift.
It actually won't, it will incorrectly attempt to identify and exclude people, but it won't work, because this is all snake oil horseshit perpetrated by attention seeking grifters.
It'll exclude plenty of people, it just won't do a good job of selectively excluding trans people.
When AI meets phrenology... Is there a scam that hasn't been recycled yet?
Hmm well I admit I haven't seen many people willing to tell your fortune by cutting open an animal then reading the guts inside. Someone should contact Y-combinator. Maybe work block chain into it somehow.
Yeah... If anyone starts talking too much about the shape of the human skull as if that means anything whatever they are selling ain't worth the pitch
Bigots will use anything to justify their bigotry.
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