• chimera@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    First, from a purely technical perspective, there is absolutely no way this works properly, you just can’t recognize a trans person just by looking at his/her face, even if this was ethically okay (and this isn’t), it couldn’t work at all.

    Second, the privacy nightmare that would be, every picture of everyone would be processed (and certainly stored forever for training the program) without the possibility to disable it ?

    And finally, the obvious discrimination against trans people (I never encountered a trans person that wasn’t honest about it, so it’s even pointless to “detect” them)

    To be honest I’m not in the LGBT community or anything, but this goes to far

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      5 months ago

      It’s marketing bullshit, in announcement they also said they used “heat signatures” from the photo to help determine if the person was trans lol

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      5 months ago

      I never encountered a trans person that wasn’t honest about it

      I guess you’re not on dating apps?

      Happened to me a lot. For some reason, especially while I was on my way to meet them. "Hey, by the way, is it okay if I have a penis?*

      Look, I’m sorry, I’m not attracted to penises. So far I’ve only had one attempt to say it’s transphobic to not want to have sex with them, but even for the others it’s really shitty to lead someone on like that.

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        5 months ago

        The consensus in the trans community is to let a potential partner know earlier, rather than later. It avoids the situation you’ve encountered. Some men also can react violently, when they find out, so it’s quite a critical dilemma to them.

        Unfortunately, not all follow that mindset. They also tend to bust out a lot, and so lead a lot of men on.

        It’s a bit like the scumbag dilemma women face. Very few men are scumbags, yet women encounter them regularly when dating. Most men try not to annoy the women they find attractive. They are careful in their approach mentality. This means they only make a few approaches (relatively). They also tend to pair off, and so exit the pool. Scumbags cast a wide net, and don’t hang on to women for long. This means they make a LOT of approaches, and so annoy a vastly disproportionate number of women.

        Basically most trans people try to be as polite and careful about it as possible. A few, unfortunately, can destroy the reputation of the rest by being scumbags about it, at least locally.

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          5 months ago

          That’s an excellent point, I say it happens to me “a lot” but that’s only after intentionally filtering out those who are upfront about it.

      • chimera@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Oh trust me I was, I tested pretty much all of them 😂

        the majority it was displayed directly in the bio, and the rest told me in the first or second message

        I trust you but I can’t relate to your experience, I always encountered honest people (at least with this subject)