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."

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.”

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    In ISBNdb’s now-removed marketing materials, it admitted that getting caught destroying printed books during the scanning process would not be a good look. “The optics problem is real,” ISBNdb’s site said. “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy.”

    So their solution was to do the evil thing secretly?

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I am convinced of that. They only feared bad press but they have no reason whatsoever to stop.