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by thismyrealone 2322 days ago
> Giggle, founded by Australian screenwriter Sall Grover, supposedly looks at the bone structure of a person’s face to determine their gender.

Maybe they should be measuring skull size instead.

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The tweet that this started with has turned into a rather funny chain of bearded men posting their "verified by AI acceptances" and how messed up the whole process is, while women (both cis and trans) have been posting their rejections about how they're too manly.

Meanwhile, the founder is doing desperate damage control while telling people it isn't racist or sexist and has nothing to do with skull size.

Lovely. As a bonus, it appears they don't really validate anything and you can just send an accepted API call? WTF?

Where are these tweets? I can't find them.
The original is now protected. Some replies:

https://twitter.com/Authw8/status/1225596902567292928

https://twitter.com/Scooz_virtual/status/1225594955105816581

https://twitter.com/mediumeli/status/1225589175107244034

Some of the posts also say that women are being forced to smile to pass.