Airbnb of private lodging site develops a mechanism to check `` whether the guest is a psychopath '' before booking

Of travel booking site that you can borrow the local people of the room Airbnb in, referred to as a 'camera without the permission of the stayed room had been set up' report and referred to as 'guests that stayed destroyed the house by opening the party' report There are risks to both borrowers and lenders. Patent documents reveal that Airbnb was building software that predicts users' 'reliability and suitability' and 'behavior and personality characteristics' from Internet activities in order to prevent such troubles.

Determining trustworthiness and compatibility of a person
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/053441797/publication/US9070088B1

Booker beware: Airbnb can scan your online life to see if you're a suitable guest | London Evening Standard
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/airbnb-software-scan-online-life-suitable-guest-a4325551.html

This information was revealed from a patent published in the United States in 2019. According to the patent documents, the software developed by Airbnb scans social media and other websites and checks the user's conscience and openness from `` secure third-party databases '' such as credit information and identity checks, disease, crime history, narcissism, Machiavellianism , such as, Saikopashi thing to be sure whether there is likely to be as 'unreliable'.

AI also lowers user ratings when it discovers fake social network profiles. Patent documents state that if users find keywords, photos, or movies related to drug / drinking / hate websites, organizations, or sex work, their scores will be lower. Similarly, people who have been related to pornography or who wrote negative words on online content will also be rated lower.

The patent also states that machine learning scans for news that may be relevant to the user and that the severity of the offense that resulted in the news is weighted. In addition, blog and website postings are also considered. According to these data and information such as social connection, employment, educational background, it is said that how users behave in the real world with others is analyzed. In this way, the 'fitness' of any of the guest hosts is calculated.

Airbnb claims that the patent is 'an extension of the acquired background-search startup Trooly,' but declined to comment on its use.

Airbnb's official website does say, 'All bookings on Airbnb are subject to a risk assessment before finalization. Predictive analytics and machine learning instantly evaluate hundreds of signals, making them suspicious before problems arise. We are detecting and investigating movements. ' On the other hand, experts have raised concerns about how much of the individual's digital footprint is being used when checking appointments.

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