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> allegedly being able to detect if a woman is cis or trans with 99 per cent accuracy. Big ol' [citation needed] on that.

bell-cot 2y ago
If that claim pushes the correct emotional buttons in their current & potential customers, then its accuracy is 99% irrelevant. Amusing thought: If, when using dating apps to look for boyfriends, most trans women were found to strongly disfavor feminine-looking men - how would the current crop of trans-rights activists react?
flexibil 2y ago
On her Twitter account, Jenny Watson pasted some JSON output of a face detection service [1] which seems to match up with Luxand's web API [2]. She hasn't announced which product her app will end up using to distinguish female faces from male faces, but assuming it is Luxand's, they do make a similar statement on their website [3]: > Luxand cloud has consistently demonstrated high accuracy in face detection, recognition, and attribute detection, exceeding 99% in many cases. I'm also skeptical of this claim but in the end I don't think it will matter too much. Either it works as intended, providing an effective dating space for lesbians, or the app gets overrun by intrusive males, which is just more evidence that lesbian spaces are under threat by men who don't respect women's boundaries. Either way she makes her point. [1] https://x.com/dnalerinrehtron/status/1798367224974950677 https://x.com/dnalerinrehtron/status/1798367224974950677 [2] https://luxand.cloud/face-detection-api https://luxand.cloud/face-detection-api [3] https://luxand.cloud/face-recognition-blog/face-recognition-api-luxand-cloud-vs-microsoft-azure-face-api https://luxand.cloud/face-recognition-blog/face-recognition-...
- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  > Either it works as intended, providing an effective dating space for lesbians If it works as intended, it'll only be effective for lesbians who have no interest in dating trans women.
  - flexibil 2y ago
    That's all lesbians then. By definition, lesbians are female individuals who are homosexual, i.e. their sexual orientation is towards others of the same sex, which means that their dating pool consists only of other female individuals. This excludes all transwomen, because - also by definition - transwomen are male.

bell-cot 2y ago

If that claim pushes the correct emotional buttons in their current & potential customers, then its accuracy is 99% irrelevant. Amusing thought: If, when using dating apps to look for boyfriends, most trans women were found to strongly disfavor feminine-looking men - how would the current crop of trans-rights activists react?

flexibil 2y ago

On her Twitter account, Jenny Watson pasted some JSON output of a face detection service [1] which seems to match up with Luxand's web API [2]. She hasn't announced which product her app will end up using to distinguish female faces from male faces, but assuming it is Luxand's, they do make a similar statement on their website [3]: > Luxand cloud has consistently demonstrated high accuracy in face detection, recognition, and attribute detection, exceeding 99% in many cases. I'm also skeptical of this claim but in the end I don't think it will matter too much. Either it works as intended, providing an effective dating space for lesbians, or the app gets overrun by intrusive males, which is just more evidence that lesbian spaces are under threat by men who don't respect women's boundaries. Either way she makes her point. [1] https://x.com/dnalerinrehtron/status/1798367224974950677 https://x.com/dnalerinrehtron/status/1798367224974950677 [2] https://luxand.cloud/face-detection-api https://luxand.cloud/face-detection-api [3] https://luxand.cloud/face-recognition-blog/face-recognition-api-luxand-cloud-vs-microsoft-azure-face-api https://luxand.cloud/face-recognition-blog/face-recognition-...

pavel_lishin 2y ago
> Either it works as intended, providing an effective dating space for lesbians If it works as intended, it'll only be effective for lesbians who have no interest in dating trans women.
- flexibil 2y ago
  That's all lesbians then. By definition, lesbians are female individuals who are homosexual, i.e. their sexual orientation is towards others of the same sex, which means that their dating pool consists only of other female individuals. This excludes all transwomen, because - also by definition - transwomen are male.