Detecting fake inventory on Airbnb

Millions of hosts & guests confidently list & book on the Airbnb platform. Our trust and safety features give them the comfort and confidence in our marketplace. Bad actors can be incentivized to take advantage of the good will and excitement that our product creates. While we face many risk vectors, we’ll focus this talk specifically on the measures we take to detect fake inventory. From machine learning to image similarity clustering, we’re constantly trying to keep our community safe.