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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is right up there with that one time^1 they used a computer to collude on rent prices.

1 - It wasn't actually just one time. It was actually a lot of times, each day, for years.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think I'm just in denial that absolutely everyone involved with the creation and use would want this outcome, or be too dense as to not see this result coming from a mile away.