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Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
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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."

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 9 points 14 hours ago

They say we shouldn't attribute to malice what could be attributed to stupidity, let's try that :

"Wait, people searching for books don't like that we help destroy real books en masse to feed the infinite fake book machines? Oh, my bad, we hadn't realized, we're not doing that then."

Yeah, I'm not absolutely convinced.