A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
sfstandard.com
The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    Honestly I’m fine with this. Robots should be handling mundane chores like putting away the dishes, and if the only people they’re harming by testing this are airbnb owners in a city with a housing shortage, I’m all for it

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Honestly, i can’t argue with that logic. Let’s hope for more startups in this industry.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    7 hours ago

    Dishwasher racks were bent and removed. Wooden furniture was scratched and stained. Bathroom tiles were chipped

    I think the only practical way to have home robot help like this is to build a dedicated room for them where everything is very thick stainless steel.

    Rich people already do this (minus the durable steel). They have separate quarters in their homes for the help (slaves) who cook do the dished, and laundry

  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    13 hours ago

    That articles described a crime spree, that is not being discussed as a crime spree.

    If it was a group of black teens who went around causing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to rental properties in the Bay area, you can be damn sure news outlets would call it a crime spree.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      You’re right. Destruction of property is a crime and at least 12 known cases definitely makes it a spree.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    16 hours ago

    Fuck absolutely everyone in this article. I hope every single one of them go bankrupt.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      AI can make music right now but it needs that extra step to replace rock stars.

    • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      17 hours ago

      Now that a handful of companies own everything & each of those companies owns the film studios; I’m guessing they’re doing a crossover event where robots use AI in a wild rager to earn enough money for college scholarships so they can get loans to bet on wars.

        • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Yeah, but with meat bags too. Remember ‘Puck’ from “The Real World”? Like that, but every week it’s a different billionaire. At the end of every season, it pans down into a pit which is full of them. The twist; human centipede. We’ve been keeping them alive by feeding them tweets from the one with thumbs. Double twist; the one with thumbs is in the middle. Triple twist; it’s so they can’t thumb their own buttholes. They still hungry tho

  • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
    75·
    12 hours ago

    I’m okay with AirBNBs being trashed. Fuck everyone involved.

    Edit; receive → everyone