Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: 'no…
Third-party book database company ISBNdb has removed a section of its website that advertised sourcing printed books in bulk for AI training data. The company claims the page was a test of market interest and no such service was ever offered, despite evidence to the contrary. This comes amid reports of AI companies using third-party rebuyers to obscure their book-scanning and destruction practices for LLM training.
- Entities
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Topic: Data Harvesting
- Company: ISBNdb
- Topic: Large Language Models
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