(CW: Transphobia) 'Giggle' is a social app created by TERFs, for TERFs. Let's destroy it. (hexbear.net)

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Trans women are not allowed to use Giggle

It claims to enforce this by requiring users to "verify they are a female" by submitting an image to be analysed by AI

Giggle has a community called 'Gender Identity' for women who are de-transitioning only

The CEO/Founder of this flaming pile of garbage is a notorious TERF that made a name for herself after having a hissy fit about swimming pools

She's currently trying to get a journalist fired (for calling her a TERF)

There are many more examples of why this is a terrible thing run by a terrible person, but I'm sure you all get the point.

EDIT: Just found an article where she doubles down on EVERYTHING

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

just used my own face for their ai recognition thing just to see if itd work and it fucking did lmao

i am now a TERF certified passing transgenderist

[-] leechgang@hexbear.net 10 points 3 years ago

bruh really it didn’t work for me and i’m a c*s woman

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 3 years ago

Thats what happens when you base an AI on incorrect assumptions about people I guess.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 4 points 3 years ago

your "Dudes Rock" t-shirt is in the mail.

welcome

[-] leechgang@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

well im basically a bimbo so i guess you just gotta be a bimbo like me to get accepted

bimbo only app

[-] Rem@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

Me, a skinny bitch, seething, wig burnt to cinders, outside the gates

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

the process has really been strange i didnt expect my lips to get this big lmao

like all the women in my family are sturdy turnip growing kinda women, i think i got the bimbo genes from my dad

if the rate of lip growth continues ill be a duck by the time im 50

[-] leechgang@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

😔

[-] _else@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

nope. ur a dude. the TERF queens declare it. im sorry. you've been wrong your entire life, sadly misled by your parents and school friends and doctors and lovers, maybe for decades.

[-] leechgang@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

lol thanks

[-] _else@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

you should probably tell all ur binary-attraction having exes that they're attracted to a differnt thing than they thought. gonna be super shitty and risk violence if they thought they were straight dudes. sympathies. you should probably get, like, lessons in how to punch things. or do you just know that now?

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Please shove phone down your pants to continue

Also who wants to bet their AI shits all over the floor when it has to analyse a black person's face

[-] ElectricMonk@hexbear.net 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

who also wants to bet that it will let in some trans women but keep out some cis butch women?

[-] mediocre_moment16@hexbear.net 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

thats probably at least somewhat intentional :(

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 5 points 3 years ago

The fact that Sall is literally reading this thread and absolutely seething is just :chefs-kiss:

Of course you're from the Gold Coast, Sall. The jokes write themselves

[-] PowerUser@hexbear.net 4 points 3 years ago

Chapo.chat doesn't exactly have a wide distribution so the most likely scenario is someone sitting at home, hitting F5 continuously for any new mentions.

[-] maverick@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

Hey Sall, if you're reading this, please end your own life as soon as possible. Thanks!

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

How much you want to bet their terf AI is also racist and does the thing where it fails at recognizing black people

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

Or disproportionately mislabels them as trans. Every white AI is racist.

[-] radicalhomo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

connect with girls to form a giggle

yay! it's giggle time

sounds like it's for 5 year olds

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago

"Secured by gender verification" — Phrenology for transphobes.

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

The funniest thing about this is that a great deal of Terfs have dedicated forums on speculating which famous cis female celebrities are actually trans women "faking".

Like no level of womanhood is correct for these freaks, it doesn't matter if you're cis, trans, femme, butch or futch they'll find some way to devalue someone's womanhood.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's so weird how ideologies of exclusion keep accidentally eating themselves.

[-] PowerUser@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

The obvious response is an app that uses 'AI' to filter out white people

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Or an app that uses AI to filter out terfs...

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You could throw away the image and just reject any british IP addresses

[-] Phish@hexbear.net 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's definitely transphobic but I gotta say this is some impressive tech. The verification pic I took of my junk had pretty poor lighting and it still wouldn't let me sign up. Not sure why it thought I'd be wearing glasses on my penis but w/e.

[-] marx_hxc@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

Apparently she's personally monitoring right now... hmmmm...

[-] Phish@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Amazing. Some dipshit linked to Chapo in the replies!

[-] marx_hxc@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

:acab-2:

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

gwen back at it

[-] Phish@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Lmao is she in there too? I'm blocked.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

probs not, it's some ATL_DSA account with literally no posts snitching on us

I just assume all hyper-online meltdowns and snitching is her

[-] _else@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

just FYI; AI tested images available at thispersondoesnotexist.com

if somebody wanted to trick a malevolent AI of some sort. for some reason.

[-] vsaush@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

★☆☆☆☆

They dont let the hot women devilishly handsome dudes nor the ethereal thembos from :flag-trans-pride: on the app. No point in using it.

[-] PowerUser@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

Failed screenwriter attempts to flog app, has huge security vulnerabilities for the first year (https://research.digitalinterruption.com/2020/09/10/giggle-laughable-security/) and lies to users about what is collected and can be sold, fortunately app is a failure and very few users have downloaded since 2019.

[-] crispyhexagon@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

dearest ceo of terf tech,

:get-in::gui-trans:

sincerly, :chapochat-trans:

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

Why call it 'giggle'

Such a cringe name :cringe:

[-] richietozier4@hexbear.net 4 points 3 years ago

I'm discriminating against people. tee-hee

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Is this that app that measures your skull to decide if you're a "real" woman? Lol, it feels like a Chapo/trashfuture bit, it's literal digital calipers.

[-] ComradeBongwater@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

She turned that old, cringey FBI "female body inspector" t-shirt into an app.

Also holy shit, TERF twitter is fucking disgusting. Do they not realize they use all the same rhetoric as chuds just dressed as "yay women! Boo men"?

...just take the "cancel culture! Freeze peach!" and replace it with "being near men is violence! death threats!".

...like yeah, go die. Support for all trans comrades, LGBTQ community, and feminists. Death to the transphobes.

[-] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

More reason to punch terfs

[-] MichelLouise@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

New reminder (after the usage of facial recognition by the police during the protests of course, but also after the more recent twitter cropping thing) that most current AI computer vision software that exists have a racist and sexist bias. Joy Buolamwini and the now famous Timnit Gebru showed in 2018 that systems showing a >99% accuracy for gender classification were actually mostly evaluated on (and developed by?) white men, and that there was a 35 points drop in accuracy when evaluating on a black female dataset. Basically, if you're a black woman, there is a >1/3 chance that AI will classify you as a man.

(They re-evaluated the same software in a later paper showing that, compared to a control group of products that were not in the initial study, the fairness of the systems exposed improved over time. So it seems that even when it's through academic publications, bullying works.)

But with this app the additional problem is that the system misgendering someone will not even be considered as a bug, but precisely as a feature.

[-] Judge_Juche@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Like 100% guarantee that their shitty AI will fuck up most of the time and all these TERFs will start clawing each other's eyes out because the app labeled them as Trans.

I mean if they were smart they would just let everyone in, knowing no self-respecting Trans-person would ever bother signing up for this fucking thing, but let's be honest the entire point of this app is the transphobic AI.

[-] Phish@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

The founder's twitter is just disgusting.

I just want to say to all my trans comrades I love you and I will never stop fighting for you.

[-] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Hi Sall! You’re an extremely shitty person and I hope your app fails, TERF.

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