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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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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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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.

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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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