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From the article: "This release also introduces Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models. (…)

Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.13, the Calibre 9.14 release is here to introduce more AI features, including the ability to generate book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction, etc., as well as Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models, while removing the GitHub backend."

I don’t have it installed at the moment but wonder how easily you can disable that stuff.

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
    8·
    6 hours ago

    How do these people not vomit looking at ai slop images? I don’t understand. I’d rather spend a few minutes searching for an image I like than generate it. It makes no sense to me.

    • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 hours ago

      The guy on Calibre has had many hot takes since forever. The most amusing one was the idea of forking Python 2 instead of migrating to Python 3.

      • average [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Counterproductive idea, sure, but I feel that forking python 2 is at least more in line with open source principles. Incorporating the CSAM machines into Calibre is bad in every way.

  • Alamar@lemmy.world
    19·
    12 hours ago

    I loved Calibre before all the AI stuff. I’ve decided to fork the project and gut out all of the AI features. I’m tenatively calling it Calibre- (Calibre minus) just for the giggles. Not sure if other people care about this or not, but an AI-gutted calibre is coming.

      • Alamar@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 hours ago

        Thanks for this and I see arcalibre too. I’m a bit worried that neither have updated in a number of months now, but I’ll see if I can help out there before continuing on with my own thing.

        • NeryK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          10 hours ago

          Most of these “project-but-without-<insert enshittification option here>” forks tend to be abandoned rather quickly unfortunately. Maintaining compatibility with a large codebase that is not yours is not the fun part of software development.

          I would say clbre and arcalibre are already abandoned, looking at the activity on these repos (none in clbre, and issues/PRs piling up in arcalibre). If you can envision yourself still dedicating your time to this endeavor 5 years from now, you might as well move forward with your own thing.

          • Alamar@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 hours ago

            I mean, that’s a good point, but it’s a fundamental part of the Fee part of FOSS. I don’t “see” myself doing anything 5 years from now but it doesn’t necessarily mean it wouldn’t be worth the effort. But you also have a good point. They do seem dead, and I don’t want to add another dead project on top of the others. But I am pretty serious about having calibre-like thing that won’t incorporate AI. Does that mean I should start a new thing, or quasi-robinhood calibre into a new thing. I don’t know yet, but I do get your point.

            • NeryK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              9 hours ago

              I might have phrased that badly with the 5 years thing. Obviously no one doing open source owes anyone else their time or effort. I do think that projects which stay afloat for a significant amount of time are those where the maintainers keep using the software for their own purpose.

              In any case, I wish you good luck with that project, and might become a user if it comes to fruition too.

              • Alamar@lemmy.world
                2·
                8 hours ago

                Yeah, I get what you mean. And thanks. I’m going to give the rereading Project a chance to respond to my message, but after a few days I’m going to move forward. I’ve already gutted the AI features, I just need to fix what yanking that out broke and then fix the ui.

    • artifex@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      If you’re into self hosting at all check out caliber-web, which uses a calibre-compatible db/backend but a web-based fronted. I switched about 3 years ago after importing my old calibre db and never looked back (household is doing around 90 books/year)

    • Kory@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      12 hours ago

      Interesting. Please let us know about your project once it’s ready.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
      424·
      13 hours ago

      why

      • why get up in the morning, only to have to do it again tomorrow?

      • why paint a still life, when you can just stare at the real thing for a while?

      • why not hunt and forage your own food?

      • why not make your own clothes?

      • why write boring code, when you can get someone or something else to write it for you?

      • why contribute features that you think are interesting to a product that you use and enjoy?

      • why post on social media, rather than doing any of the above?

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
    161·
    15 hours ago

    Previously it said the AI stuff is optional and doesn’t start doing anything until you configure it. It’s disabled by default.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      61·
      14 hours ago

      It’ll even read the books for you so it can write more books you don’t have to read.