Zillow created the Fair Housing Classifier for Large-Scale Language Models (LLM) to help others in real estate, civil rights, and technology protect their AI-powered real estate conversations.
Seattle, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Zillow releases open source fair housing classifierleverages large-scale language modeling (LLM) technology to establish guardrails to promote responsible and fair behavior in real estate conversations.
Many AI tools ignore fair housing requirements and, when deployed, can perpetuate bias and undermine progress made in defending fair housing. Zillow's Fair Housing Classifier reduces the risk of illegal steering, the practice of influencing buyers' community choices based on buyer characteristics that are legally protected under federal law. I'm focusing on that.
“Since 2006, Zillow has been using AI to bring transparency to homebuyers and power tools like the Zestimate,” he said. Josh Weisberg, Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence. “We've been in the business of increasing transparency in real estate, and open sourcing this classifier shows that advances in technology don't have to come at the expense of fairness and equity for consumers. We provide free and easy access so others can feel safe, use it, collaborate with us, and improve it in the civil rights, technology, and real estate fields. It can be helpful. ”
The Fair Housing Classifier serves as a safeguard to foster fairer conversations with AI technologies. Detect questions that can lead to discriminatory responses for legally protected groups in real estate experiences, including search and chatbots. The classifier identifies instances of nonconformity in the input or output, leaving the decision of how to intervene in the hands of the system developer.
“In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, it is increasingly important to promote safe, secure, and reliable AI practices in housing and lending to protect consumers from algorithmic harm.” Ta. Michael Akinwumi, PhD, Chief AI Officer at the National Fair Housing Alliance. “Zillow’s open source approach sets a great precedent for responsible innovation. We encourage other organizations and coalition groups to actively participate, test, and enhance our model, and share the results with the public. We encourage you to share.”
The decision to open source the Fair Housing Classifier underscores Zillow's commitment to transparency, equity, and fair housing in real estate. Organizations looking to adopt a fair housing classifier can access the code and comprehensive framework. GitHub. Trusted partners who would like to contribute and enhance the classifier can contact us via email at her alias on the GitHub page for access to training data and pre-trained models after presenting a genuine use case. You can request. This transparency is key to encouraging contributions to improve the model. Improvements to the Fair Housing Classifier can be submitted through GitHub's standard request process.
With hundreds of millions of Americans searching for housing online today, it's crucial that people have the tools to make the journey home more fair, transparent, and less difficult. A recent Zillow survey of 26 major U.S. metropolitan areas found that younger generations, renters, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color are more likely to say fair housing is an issue they and their families face. Even with fair housing laws, Ensure equal and non-discriminatory access to housing — After nearly 60 years in place, discrimination remains a stubborn factor in housing, Zillow's latest Housing aspirations report indicates. The survey found that the majority of respondents (57%) reported experiencing some form of housing discrimination, with groups such as the LGBTQ+ population reporting discrimination at higher rates. But overall, only 42% of respondents said fair housing affects them or their families, and how much effort is being put into continuing to educate people about their rights under fair housing laws? It highlights what is necessary.
Making the Fair Housing Classifier available as open source is just one way Zillow is innovating its approach for consumers. Earlier this year, Zillow's cross-functional Ethics AI team AI principlesThis underscores the company's commitment to prioritizing equitable outcomes in real estate.
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