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.”

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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    4 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.