David GerardM to [email protected]English • 21 hours agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.commessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1188
arrow-up1188external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.comDavid GerardM to [email protected]English • 21 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•20 hours agoGood news is it wasn’t JUST a $2.28 million fine, they’re now banned from using this AI scoring system for 5 years. Of course, it’d be far better if it was a permanent ban.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•20 hours agogive their devs a couple hours they’ll have a totally different–but not really that different, system, and business as usual will continue.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 hours agoYup. “We changed a few buttons and gave the UI a new look so it’s totally a brand new product and not the same thing”.
Cost of doing business.
Good news is it wasn’t JUST a $2.28 million fine, they’re now banned from using this AI scoring system for 5 years.
Of course, it’d be far better if it was a permanent ban.
give their devs a couple hours they’ll have a totally different–but not really that different, system, and business as usual will continue.
Yup. “We changed a few buttons and gave the UI a new look so it’s totally a brand new product and not the same thing”.