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

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Following 404 Media's reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and walked back claims that it would train AI models, and instead called it "a test of market interest."On July 30, nine days after 404 Media's reporting, ISBNdb added a note to its homepage and an update on its news page about the change.