David GerardM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish • 4 months agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down10
arrow-up1191arrow-down1external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistpivot-to-ai.comDavid GerardM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-square@JakenVeina@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish26•4 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@adarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish19•4 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@Mirshe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 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”.
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”.