Were you planning to transform your Airbnb rental into a giant nightclub to party with your loved ones on December 31? We will have to forget. The peer-to-peer rental giant has announced that it has strengthened its system “anti-party“. After an effective deployment in 2020, which led to the cancellation of 74,000 reservations judged “at risk“, the company has equipped its arsenal with machine learning technology capable of identifying and blocking suspicious vacationers. The initiative was extended this year internationally, and it targets eight countries in particular, including France.
Detect party people
By analyzing the length of stay, the type of accommodation reserved, but also the distance between the vacationer’s home and the rented propertyAirbnb’s detection software intends to leave partygoers no chance. Thus, rentals of entire houses located close to large cities, and for a length of stay of less than three nights, will be closely scrutinized. Unsurprisingly, opinions – both positive and negative – will also be scrutinized. Don’t expect to book if you’ve already been pinned for rowdiness, or if you don’t have a history on the platform.
This New Year’s Eve, Airbnb is implementing measures to reduce the risk of unauthorized and disruptive parties.
Users will also have to sign a anti-party certificate requiredwhich commits them to respecting the rules of the platform. An additional guarantee which will probably not deter the most motivated, but which sounds like an additional commitment on the scale of the platform. Also, homes with a capacity of more than 16 people could see their rental temporarily suspended.
Avoid drama
Airbnb’s decision does not come by chance. Since the end of the pandemic, the platform has been confronted with several abuses, some leading to the degradation of rented goods, some leading to dramatic incidentsincluding a shooting at a Pittsburgh rental that left two teenagers dead. In France, certain Airbnb accommodations have been singled out, and the platform accused of negligence in its moderation of problematic tenants. The fact remains that the system seems to work: in France, since the implementation of its tool “anti-party” in August 2020, Airbnb reported a drop in incident rate by 42% each year. The arrival of predictive AI in the equation should reduce the risk of false positives, while perpetuating the control tools put in place.
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