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:
It also seems that the same archive has a guess at how old you are too, Discord has gotten this entirely wrong, except one time.
{
"user_id": "282657081457115136",
"predicted_age": "35+",
"probability": 0.7547529339790344,
"prob_13_17": 0.0005852651665918529,
"prob_18_24": 0.014580278657376766,
"prob_25_34": 0.23008151352405548,
"prob_35_over": 0.7547529339790344,
"model_version": "2024-03-20T00:00:00.000000Z",
"day_pt": "2024-03-27 00:00:00 UTC"
}
@benjojo Interesting I shall have to try it. Also I can test “If you manually delete a message - it is no longer stored in Discord and therefore may not be included in your Data Package.” Which at least is something. In future in U.K. they will likely have to age verify people so won’t have to guess age anymore
@benjojo I am very torn over whether @openrightsgroup should be on Discord. On one hand it is not privacy friendly but then on the other we also have a Facebook and Tik Tok presence on the basis of needing to reach new audiences to create awareness of this kind of data and privacy issue
@JamesBaker @benjojo @openrightsgroup should be here. Less bad than Facebook etc., more likely to find engaged users.
@JamesBaker @benjojo @openrightsgroup oh for sure stay clear of Discord or Slack for teams comms. They will sell you out to advertisers or for AI snake oil money.
And a very high barrier to entry makes them not suitable for non-team members
@falken @benjojo @openrightsgroup That was my thinking that it might also reach some new people especially with a few issues around gaming privacy issues. I did ask on a members survey but got quite a few people complain about Discord and privacy issues