AirBnb is at war against partygoers who don’t respect the rules, but also against fictitious rentals, an increasingly common scourge through which ill-intentioned people offer to rent property that does not belong to them or, worse yet, that do not exist at all.
The platform for connecting owners and vacationers announces that it is operating a general inspection of goods registered on the site. Employees of the company will be responsible for determining the veracity of the information and documents provided by the owners, and will be supported in their task by AI-based technology.
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There verification procedure may be somewhat tedious for owners. In fact, the company will ask hosts to “enter the property and open the Airbnb app. GPS will verify that they are at the correct address, and artificial intelligence will be used to compare live photos with what the host uses on the listing. »
AirBnb tackles misleading or fictitious rentals with the help of AI
Additionally, for properties already listed on Airbnb, employees will review all rental histories and descriptions. THE false or non-existent rentals and unauthorized parties are real problems for the company. They degrade confidence in the service and, ultimately, reduce turnover. This is why, according to the Associated Press, “ Airbnb says it removed 59,000 fake listings and prevented 157,000 more from joining the platform this year.”
Properties rented on Airbnb will first be verified in France, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Goods certified as compliant will be issued a badge from February 2024. Furthermore, in advance of the big fall redesign which should take place in the coming weeks, the CEO of the company announces that the two filters most requested by Internet users will appear, the size of the beds, for example, or be brought back into operation, like the “pets accepted” criterion, which has disappeared since 2021.