David GerardM to [email protected]English • 2 months agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.commessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology
arrow-up1203arrow-down1external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.comDavid GerardM to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: technology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish29•2 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months 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@MirshelinkEnglish5•2 months 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”.
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”.