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by wheelerwj 46 days ago
This thing is ripe for a lawsuit and has terrible methodology as far as I can tell.
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On what grounds is there a lawsuit? Hasn't scraping been classified as legal?
Calling someone’s apartment an opium den is potentially libel, and if it results in a material financial impact, you’ve got a lawsuit.
Is it someone's apartment or Airbnb's apartment?
classifying people's businesses as an "opium den" using a shitty LLM prompt seems like a pretty good way to piss some people off.
I don't necessarily agree with labeling them drug dens. But certainly the hosts showed zero or negative effort in keeping the room clean and suitable to rent. They do deserve some shaming.