This Halloween, Airbnb’s biggest fear isn't ghosts or ghouls — it's guests throwing parties. Airbnb says they are deploying AI "anti-party" technology across the U.S. and Canada to mitigate Halloween gatherings this weekend, according to a press release. The company says it is using machine learning to block bookings that show potential of party risks "such as the length of the reservation, the distance of the listing from the guest’s location, property type, and timing of the booking, including last-minute requests." This is the fifth year that Airbnb has instituted anti-Halloween party protections, which prohibited 38,000 people from booking houses in the U.S. and 6,300 in Canada last year, according to the company. Airbnb issued a permanent global party ban in 2022 amid multiple shootin

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