J'ai terminé un article de blog où je pars du fait que le logiciel Calibre a ajouté des fonctionnalités basées sur l'IA dans sa version 8.16.2 pour parler de l'IA et plus précisément des LLM et donner mon avis sur tout ça.

https://blog.simonlefort.be/clbre.html

Bonne lecture!

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Mais enfin... Même les bons logiciels qui "juste marchent" depuis des années se mettent à intégrer de l'IA ?

C'est désolant. Déprimant. Enrageant.

Heureusement qu'il y a déjà des forks qui apparaissent (voir https://beige.party/@book/115674252870870299 ).

J'ai écrit un article à ce sujet sur mon blog ( https://blog.simonlefort.be/clbre.html ), bonne lecture.

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So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11.   Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.

The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpe 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.

For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.

Just run:

sudo apt-mark hold calibre calibre-bin

And to check that it worked, run:

apt-mark showhold

Edit: Added @pacavegano 's suggestion to original command.

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I've just pushed my changes for clbre to github that I believe strips out the AI integration.
https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

I have also forked the Arch AUR calibre-git repository so it can build clbre on Arch Linux based systems. Or at least it works for me...
https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre-git

If you know what you're doing then please give it a go. I make no guarantee that it'll build on anything other than my machine, and even then I seem to only be able to do a couple of build runs before one of the build steps crashes out with a segfault that can only be resolved by rebooting my machine.

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With the recent announcement of Calibre now having even more AI integration (I wasn't aware of it before), I am thinking about maintaining a fork that strips out the AI integration completely.

If I do it will be called Clbre. I'd also be happy if someone else uses that name for the same thing.

#no2ai #Clbre