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Originally Posted by farmo
Book summaries for thousands of years have been created by readers, who put human thought in the summary (and often stand with their name for it). That's different from algorithmic processing, generated with the sole purpose of enriching large cooperations. Which may, by the way, steal the original books text for adding them to their shady training sets - another thing Calibre should not support.
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Calibre also supports the plugins for DRM removal, which may be used to upload deDRMed books to pirate sites. And a knife may be used for killing someone.
A tool is a tool. It's not good or evil on its own. It depends on the user for what purpose it's used.
As to whether book summaries are generated by a human being or a LLM, I personally don't care. I want the summary I use to be impersonal and not reflect any personal opinions of the generator (if I want a personal opinion, I'll read a review, which is another thing altogether), and a LLM summary is good enough for me in this.