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Well except they're not asking poor people are they? They're asking everybody. And it's just an ask. If you don't want to accommodate the request then you don't have to, but going on the internet and publicly discouraging people from advocating for the needy just because they're wealthy is not helping anyone, especially the needy.

Yes exactly it's about their power to influence

There was a Ted Talk a while back (I can't remember who) where they said "I have always wanted to give a Ted Talk... what I realized I really wanted was to say I had given a Ted Talk". Meaning they want to be known as someone who had given a Ted Talk, not actually go through the process of writing and delivering the Talk.

People who write open source code do it because they like the process of writing, just like an author enjoys writing books. LLMs are for people who just want to be able to say they have written a book. People who slop-code aren't actually interested in learning how to code. Which is a fine toy for them to play with, but not sustainable (or reliable for others to use).

This is so true, I always think it's funny when they say AI will fix climate change, what's it going to do? Tell us to stop burning fossil fuels?

I've seen that but it's a weird vibe coded app and doesn't actually work

ShelfMark is the go-to option now. It's also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna's Archive.

I think CWA is the most robust option out there. BookLore was vibecoded and behaved in the typical weird/unexpectedly way vibecoded apps tend to. I haven't tried the Fork of it, but CWA checks nearly all the boxes and is actively developed.

I wish ABS synced progress between formats with KOReader!

IIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.

Huh? You distrust that the researchers distrust?

I definitely agree with that, I'm just saying I also saw no indication that the people running the project would disagree.

The person I was replying to said the researchers misunderstood how the models work, but there's nothing in the report to indicate that is the case.