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I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens

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Why This Matters

This groundbreaking analysis leverages advanced AI to scrutinize nearly 2 million Airbnb photos, revealing hidden patterns and suspicious content across multiple cities. It highlights how AI can enhance platform transparency, safety, and quality control, ultimately benefiting consumers and industry stakeholders alike.

Key Takeaways

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Every Airbnb,

looked at all at once .

Every public listing in Inside Airbnb's open dump, 119 cities, 4 quarterly snapshots. We scored 1.7M photos with CLIP (a model that turns an image into a vector you can compare to a text prompt), shortlisted the most suspicious ones, and had Claude Haiku Vision double-check each shortlist. We also scored every review and reranked the weirdest 12K with Haiku. Everything was parallelized on Burla, on a single dynamic cluster that scaled to ~1.7K CPU workers for photo download and CLIP, with 20 A100 GPUs running embedding clusters in parallel on the same cluster.

-- Listings -- Photos scraped -- Reviews scored -- CLIP-scored -- GPU detections -- Peak workers

Listings, reviews, and calendars come straight from public Inside Airbnb dumps. The findings cards below use bootstrap 95% confidence intervals on each listing's 365-night calendar occupancy (how booked a listing is over the next year, our demand proxy). Click any photo to expand it. Click any review to read it in full.