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Originally Posted by Hatgirl
Unearthing my MobileRead account for the first time in 4 years to say I won't be upgrading Calibre past 8.15 .
While we'd all love to view technology separately from the society that birthed it, we can't and we shouldn't.
The LLMs we have access to were all trained on stolen material. I will not use a tool that only exists because of harm that was done to the authors who have given me so much joy.
Calibre has been not just a wonderful piece of software, but a reminder that another way is possible - the internet can be a place of collaboration instead of exploitation. I suppose it was unlikely to remain that way forever, but I'm sad for what has been lost.
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Hmm. Many, many tools and scientific advances were created by causing harm or even death to someone, either animal or human. While I don't necessarily condone this, stopping using everything that was created causing harm to someone would take us right back to the Stone Age.
If you think LLMs are somehow exceptional in this, I suggest you read up on the history of various inventions and discoveries.