Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest "smoking detectors."
Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest "smoking detectors."
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Oh the class action should prove very entertaining.
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Funnily enough my home has smoke detectors. No advanced algorithms just simple detection of smoke. I mean they are only designed to save lives not fine anybody, but I guess that's not what Hyatt are after.
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I suppose it’s looking at it like that is the same as the speedcam argument. Is it safety or revenue. At least you have some oversight and a due process when that’s wrong though.
I wonder if these people could contact the fire department as it has to be some kind of hazard giving false reports.
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Trickle down scamming: Rest scams the hotel, the hotel scams the guests.
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£500 is excessive. And fighting guests over your scummy practice. Not on.
Hope a regulator steps in and looks at this but not hopeful.
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It’s not a regulator issues, it’s a fraud issue, the prosecutor should be dealing with this.
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I think you completely missed the point of the investigation - it's not about the hotel's charges, it's about an ai-powered smoke "detection" system that the creators are advertising as inherently increasing revenue, suggesting a scheme between the hotel and company making the detectors to defraud the hotel's customers.
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What is the algorithm deciding? The person most likely to pay?
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Despite reddit and Lemmy screeching, this shit hasn't happened to me using airbnb and has happened often with hotels.
🤷♂️
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Yes, but at AirBnB you have cleaning charge scams and hidden cameras in the bedroom. Pick your posion I guess 🤷
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Again as someone staying overnight 40+ days a year I find this to be extremely overblown and lacking in any real data either way but my personal experience is more than most.
I think there was a small problem for a short while but was always overblown and was fixed relatively quickly.
I've run into, if I had to guess 5:1 issues in hotel vs Airbnb 🤷♂️.
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