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

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month 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.

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