​Brian Chesky, CEO of the online booking platform Airbnb, said that it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to pre-identify customers who are likely to host a party in a reserved house, Business Insider reports.

“We use machine learning techniques to review the last 1.5 billion guests that have arrived [rezervare] it led to a party and what not,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg.

“If you try to do it with the human eye, you might not see any patterns, but AI can look at over a billion data points, find multiple similarities, and create a set of rules,” he added.

Chesky explained that if a booking request from platform users raises questions, “we either stop them or ask them for more information until we’re comfortable with you or we’re with you.”

The head of Airbnb also explained that artificial intelligence will also be used on the side of the hosts to check whether the photos of the location of the houses for rent are confirmed by satellite images. This measure is aimed at identifying and eliminating false ads.

In November 2019, Airbnb temporarily banned parties in rental properties after a fatal incident in the US.

A year later, the company tested expanding the limit as more customers began hosting parties in homes reserved during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last June, Airbnb announced that the ban would become permanent, saying that some guests had “chosen their behavior in bars and clubs in homes sometimes rented through our platform.”