DOJ targeting AI rental pricing software is misguided, conservatives warn

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a lawsuit against a rental software company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for landlords to use in assessing rental market prices as they determine what to charge renters.

The DOJ suit alleges that RealPage violated antitrust law by contracting with "competing landlords who agree to share with RealPage nonpublic, competitively sensitive information about their apartment rental rates and other lease terms to train and run RealPage's...