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.

  • Alamar@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.