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It's only US users right now. Here's a more detailed announcement: https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-were-fighting-discrimination-on-ai
by ibejoeb 6y ago
It's only US users right now. Here's a more detailed announcement: https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-were-fighting-discrimination-on-airbnb-201 https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/a-new-way-w...
Whatever good intention might be behind this, it's really off-putting to me. They send your photo and name to a third party who is tasked with evaluating those to determine your race.
"will look at these photos and first names and indicate their perceptions—or, what race they think the information we shared suggests. They’ll share these perceptions with a specialized team at Airbnb exclusively for anti-discrimination work"
Presumably that'll be correlated to booking data to identify rejections. I can't think of any other use case.
Gotta say, if someone truly doesn't want me to stay somewhere because of my race, I'll take that rejection rather than force myself into a shitty situation.
- ponker 6y agoExactly! The AirBNB setup puts both parties in a vulnerable spot. If people are racist let them can my reservation, I don’t wanna see them either!
- teej 6y agoThis presumably helps Airbnb deplatform racist hosts, which is a better outcome in my opinion.
- ponker 6y agoI absolutely do NOT want that. Then hosts will learn to conceal their racism (unless they wanted to be deplatformed, in which case why wouldn’t they deplatform themselves?) and I might accidentally book with them.
- hunter2_ 6y agoI believe most attempts to counter racism involve shaming racists and therefore result in the concealment of racism rather than lack of racism, unfortunately. Just as teaching a kid to stop picking his nose or similar activities results in concealment more often than stoppage.
- strzibny 6y ago100%.