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Nobody_Special@Nobody_Special@piefed.social

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a “test of market interest.”

www.404media.co/ai-company-training-scanning-books-database-isbndb/
404 MediaCompany Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media CoverageCiting backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
PierceTheBubble@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml

Replying to @⁨Nobody_Special@piefed.social⁩

ISBNdb has never purchased, scanned, or sold a book — for AI training or anything else

Nobody is accusing you of that, but instead of facilitating it (or at least trying to) as an intermediary. You got caught red-handed, and now you’re trying to pass it off as a “marketing experiment”, you weasel. But at least you didn’t double down and take down the entire platform with it, so I’ll give you that.

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