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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Gullible 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your boss is a cop, right? They are the only ones where ignorance of the law is an excuse not to follow it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My friend, not every AI rates people for their skin tone.

[–] Gullible 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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.