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Incident 166: Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

Description: A social networking platform, Giggle, allegedly collected, shared to third-parties, and used sensitive information and biometric data to verify whether a person is a woman via facial recognition, which critics claimed to be discriminatory against women of color and harmful towards trans women.

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Alleged: Kairos developed an AI system deployed by Giggle, which harmed trans women and women of color.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
166
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-02-07
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
GMF, MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

Human

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Intentional

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This girls-only app uses AI to screen a user’s gender — what could go wrong?
A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women — and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too
This girls-only app uses AI to screen a user’s gender — what could go wrong?

This girls-only app uses AI to screen a user’s gender — what could go wrong?

theverge.com

A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women — and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too

A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women — and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too

businessinsider.com

This girls-only app uses AI to screen a user’s gender — what could go wrong?
theverge.com · 2020

A new social app called Giggle is pitching itself as a girls-only networking platform. To sign up, users have to take a selfie. And while that might not sound too invasive, the app then uses “bio-metric gender verification software” to dete…

A social media app just for 'females' intentionally excludes trans women — and some say its face-recognition AI discriminates against women of color, too
businessinsider.com · 2022

An app marketed towards "females" has faced a barrage of online criticism for excluding transgender women with its use of artificial intelligence.

Giggle, which first launched in early 2020, according to The Verge, uses facial recognition t…

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