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Airbnb, the popular online marketplace for short and long-term homestays recently announced that it is once again deploying its “anti-party” technology to “reduce the risk of disruptive parties.”
In a blog post, the company claimed that its anti-party technology uses machine learning to identify potentially high-risk bookings of entire home listings and blocks such reservations depending on various criteria, discouraging almost 74,000 people worldwide from booking last New Year’s Eve.
Airbnb says its anti-party system “assesses a number of signals”, which include the length of the trip, the type of the listing, the distance between the listing and the customer’s location and the date of the reservation to identify disruptive booking. Following this, the company says users will either be blocked from booking or redirected to an alternate listing.
If you are looking to book an entire home on Airbnb this New Year’s Eve in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, be ready to stay more than three nights and sign an “anti-party attestation” before booking the property.
In 2019, Airbnb started cracking down on parties after five people died in a shooting at an Airbnb listing, and in the following year, the company banned all parties. Since then, Airbnb says it has been using its anti-party defense system for the last four years and has been significant reduction in number of disruptive parties ever since.
