This new dating app will use facial recognition technology to exclude trans women

Not once have I encountered a trans person on a dating app who wasn't 100% transparent about it. Some even asked me after matching, "you're aware that I'm trans, right?" just to be sure.

There's no logical reason to falsely pretend to be cis on a dating app to get matches. If someone's cool about it then it's better to know up front, right? And if they're not, then you probably don't want to waste your time on them.

The "justification" for this app is just bigotry, plain and simple. Fuck TERFs.

Curious what happens when it thinks a cis woman is trans.

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

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.

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

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.

So far the app has already banned a featherless hen and its own creator (seriously)

Yeah man that won't work

The app will probably get false positives anyway.

When AI meets phrenology... Is there a scam that hasn't been recycled yet?

I don't think atrificial intelligence will be needed, trans people will just use intelligence and not use this app.

Some daughters have the same face as their fathers, some sons have the same face as their mothers. How could this possibly work?

What about making different classifications for cis and trans males and females? There are people who are not dating someone trans or who only date trans people.

Saving them the weird moment of realizing it seems good.

Seems like wasted effort & resources....

The people on the apps should be able to manage their own activity.

As long as the greater society continues to conflate sex(ual)/genitalia[male, female, intersex/hermaphrodite] with gender(man, woman, trans man, trans woman, non-binary, etcetera) nothing will reach a mutal level of comprehension.

The plethora of false positives makes this technology flawed - the number of females who will be flagged as trans 😅..... the plethora of trans woman who will not get flagged....😅....

What a time to be alive.....

These apps are not created to make meaningful connections. It's to increase their profits and engagement. Apps have been around how long now, and we see a DECLINE in the quality of relationships not their improvement..

They literally tried this exact thing already and it accepted many trans women and refused many cis women.

This already happened a few years ago. Transphobic ciswomen got mad when the app identified them as trans.

Now if we could have a dating app that excluded conservatives...

Who’d want to date anyone who uses this app anyways?

Even the TERFs are getting into AI grifts nowadays

Hopefully Apple doesn’t allow this astroturfer crap on the appstore.

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The transphobe Chloe Cole won't be able to use it.

If bathroom laws pass, she will never be able to use a public bathroom.

Lol, it's just really not that hard to get your vagina, tits and face in the same photo. It would be super obvious if there was a penis in between. So maybe they should detect penises? And then they could detect diseases on the penis that would be pretty obvious. So guys would need to upload a photo showing their penis and face in one shot... again pretty easy to do these days.