6 Responses to “A place where women can connect”

• #1

  Skeletor

  January 24, 2022 at 10:22 am

  Using AI analysis of a photo is an interesting approach that I personally would have been wary of (see Google “gorillas” incident). There seem to have been some problems with it already, and it can easily be fooled anyway by having a female friend submit “your” picture.
• #2

  Michael Haubrich

  January 24, 2022 at 10:35 am

  It’s obvious that the journalist from PinkNews is “just asking questions,” since they know the answers that Sall would give.
• #3

  Dave Ricks

  January 24, 2022 at 6:40 pm

  Giggle using AI on selfies piqued my interest, so I read the comments that the developer wrote on this page of reviews. I compiled some of the developer comments here:

  Giggle onboarding is reviewed and controlled by real people.

  We closely monitor all verification fails. The female failure rate is 1-500. This is usually due to a lighting or [background] issue. The failure rate for men is almost absolute.

  The female exclusion rate is almost zero. Men have tried numerous tricks to gain access, and yes, some have been successful until they are identified by our operators and users and removed.

  Whilst giggle uses AI as the initial gatekeeper, real people review all that the AI fails. We have reviewed all fails for this month and the only fails as you have described where black screens. The selfie was not visible. You are able to check the selfie prior to sending it for verification. Please try again.

  We don’t use phrenology. This is misinformation that has been spread on Twitter. Hope this helps!

  No cats have been verified.
• #4

  iknklast

  January 25, 2022 at 7:22 am

  No cats have been verified

  My cat is outraged, just outraged, that she has not been allowed to join this site. She is planning to contact the police and lodge a complaint.

  I told her cats were not a protected class. She is on her way to D.C. to get that changed.
• #5

  latsot

  January 25, 2022 at 8:32 am

  Sal Grover has said that a surprising number of men use pictures of Jennifer Aniston (I think) to try to fool the AI. She apologised in advance in case Aniston ever tried to join Giggle as it would set off a thousand klaxons.

  Skeletor, Dave is right. There’s a human team monitoring the AI, which is definitely necessary.
• #6

  Dave Ricks

  April 7, 2022 at 9:05 pm

  I just watched Karen Davis interview Sall Grover about Giggle (Sept. 2021). I’m not 100% sure, but I think that the AI on selfies was part of joining Giggle from the start, and Grover said that transsexuals were also welcome, and they would just need to send a private message to get in. But then the shouty ones made a fuss over that being the method, and she had to exclude them altogether. In any case, my transcript of Sall Grover from the video is accurate:

  We had (like) a meeting at Giggle HQ, and because I had been the one who had said trans women were welcome, and I’d fought for that, but I was thinking about (like) the trans women who I had met throughout my life, who were sort of what we would now refer to as transsexual women, who were always very lovely, often very quiet people, very sort of grateful (if they were) and very polite if they were included in something. And so, I was like sure, okay, you know, it’s time. I was like, it’s 2020, like yes.

  But then I very quickly realized, no, female spaces are under attack, and I saw the importance of them in a completely new light, and was like, now these need to be protected, and I will do everything in my power to protect it, to protect them, and I’ve been on a crash course of educating every since. Like I’ve read everything you could possibly read. Like now when the TRAs come out after me, and they’re like, “Educate yourself,” I’m like, “Honey, I have.” Because I am in a fortunate position, where I can spend my days while I’m doing all of this, I just listen to podcasts, I use anything I can find while I’m working. I listen to get it all. And it just came down to the fact that (well) I created something for women — women — you listen to women. It’s as simple as that. So we did.