Published 07/31/2024 1:22:10 a.m.

SF Supervisors Ban AI Software Used to Set Rental Prices, Arguing the Technology is Price-Fixing and Collusion

Summary by SFist

San Francisco is the first city in the nation to ban AI software used to set rent prices, as the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved banning algorithms used to maximize what landlords charge for rent.Your landlord might be using AI to set your rent price; or rather, to jack up your rent price, or even keep units vacant because the algorithms say it’s more profitable for them in the long run. That’s what the New York Times found in a recent…

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SF Supervisors Ban AI Software Used to Set Rental Prices, Arguing the Technology is Price-Fixing and Collusion

07/31/2024 6:06:03 p.m.

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SF Examiner

SF bans software used to set housing rents

San Francisco has banned a controversial form of software that is widely used by large property owners around the U.S. to set housing rents. Critics allege the programs amount to nationwide price-fixing.

07/31/2024 1:22:10 a.m.·S F, United States

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