Quote:
Originally Posted by farmo
"Calibre adding "AI conversations" with books fundamentally alters the relationship that users, presumably readers!, have with the works in their libraries. ... Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down. ... But the question remains: what relationship should a library management tool have with the author and the reader? How should or shouldn't it facilitate the creation of and participation in art?" (xgranade at mastodon - see their full thread here.
I see that as valid objections to the newly introduced features - in addition to natural and developer resources waste, as pointed out by others. I'm using and loving Calibre since 2013, and have for now updated to the latest "pre-AI" version 8.15 |
I
know the AI function is tucked away. I
know I only found out it was even there because it ate one of my keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, I'm an oldtimer.
Yes, I've been using calibre to deal with my ebook library since I was reading RTF files on my old beat up HP Jornada from a CF card that was measured in inches of size and megs of data.
I still don't want AI having access to my library, even (especially) after seeing reports that fan based sites and small publishers have had their works scraped for training AI, against the wishes of the site owners and the authors.
I
know my anger is a drop in the ocean. That doesn't change the fact that my anger
exists.