Company that said it could scan and destroy books for AI data-harvesting has deleted that part of its website: ‘no such service was ever brought to life’
Remember the story about AI companies destroying millions of copies of books while scanning them to use as training data? In terms of bad optics, “destroying books” is right up there with kicking puppies, which is why the AI companies relied on third-party rebuyers to obfuscate what they were actually doing. It didn’t work, and…