Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist
Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist
SafeRent is a machine learning black box for landlords. It gives landlords a numerical rating of potential tenants and a yes/no result on whether to rent to them. In May 2022, Massachusetts housing…
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Literally everyone knows that AI is racist. They did this while fully understanding and accepting the implications of their actions. Surely that should count toward a higher fine
I doubt it. My boss has a massive AI boner and he doesn't know shit about anything AI. I really don't think he's aware of this or other issues.
Your boss is a cop, right? They are the only ones where ignorance of the law is an excuse not to follow it.
My friend, not every AI rates people for their skin tone.
Pretty sure every single one since Tay has been fairly racist. They get around that fact in many modern AIs by forcing subject changes but it’s still fairly racist on the backend. Early “jailbreaking” proved as much.
My coding AI is bullshit and almost every Kotlin, SQL, Java or whatever snippet is a hallucination, but I'm pretty sure it's not racist.
Not all AIs are made for the topic here. But all suffer from the same issues. Shit in, shit out.