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Filled out the survey because this is unacceptable and seeing the response on here and Instagram, people are rightfully fed up, tired, angry, and disappointed. Shame on you, Libby. We trusted you.

Respect readers and writers and say no to AI.

This sucks stop condoning the use of the plagiarism machine that’s guzzling electricity

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Hoopla is another library app that (as far as I know) hasn’t made any deals with the devil.

Yeah this sucks

"Clarity" - yes, it's clear you don't give a fuck about your users.

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when the bubble pops, you'll burn along with the data centers

You can just say you use ai without all the extra effort. No one cares that you twist yourself into knots to try to justify its usage.

Boo! Fuck AI!

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Libby, tell us you don't actually care about libraries, library users, authors, library workers and general readers, without telling us you don't actually care about them.

okay bye then

it's so fun watching these companies shoot themselves in the foot every time they try to nicely put it that they're adapting AI

Well guess I'll be uninstalling your app. This stance is shameful.

LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER

Goddamnit I love your app, don’t do this. I have no issue going right back to pirating books.

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

This breaks my heart as I've been a big supporter of this app and tried to get many people to use it. If it starts getting flooded with ai slop it's going to be a big loss, but I will dump this app no problem. It's not surprising piracy is on the rise when even libby gives Into the slop

Blah blah blah We know this post. All these words to say you are arrogantly going to feed the artistic theft and slop machine. No AI hack fraud is going to self-identify the AI slop they generate. You have completely destroyed your reputation with this action.

Really libby? You could just NOT You know this AI bubbles gonna pop and it'll be no more important than the term "smartphone" "smarttv" just a decade back.

Books have spines. Too bad you don't.

You are straight up wrong. I hope you take that to heart.

Also uninstalled, it didn’t even have any libraries in my area

Unreal. This is so dumb

Hey guys, this sucks.

Boooo

Well that’s bloody disappointing. Guess I’m running down the loans I’ve already got and then ditching the app. Genuinely brainless decision.

This sucks

It’s literally their job to check authors and publishers. I’m sorry but I don’t get your take. Are you trying to defend this or something?

Are there any other apps you recommend? I like hoopla for is dyslexic friendly font but last I saw people were commenting about their AI books back in April

Seconded. Not even REQUIRING AI books be identified? Just going "pweeeaase? We twust you"? We see how well that worked with Etsy. This is so disappointing.

No. No. NO!!! Please don't do this.

No AI. Any other sugar coating on statement allowing it is a disgrace

The idiots in office right now want libraries dead just as much as people they think are too poor or brown, dont be one of their casualties by using their garbage

Jesus. We really can’t have nice things, can we? Libby, read the room, or we won’t be reading you. Also, get a new socials manager. One who knows that Alt text isn’t optional.

Yo Libby what the fuck

Image description: Images show the content of Libby’s new AI policy, which is basically: we love genAI and aim to start adding AI generated books into our libraries ASAP. Accessibility matters, @libbyapp.com. I’d expect libraries to understand that.

“Technologies evolve, but our morality devolves”

I just assume organizations like this or Firefox which make self-destructive decisions to push AI slop are either (a) run by morons, or (b) bought out by the worst, most anti-human AI lobbies. Stop it. We don’t want this. We will never want this. You are on the leading edge of selling out.

yall were supposed to be one of the good ones. this sucks so much

No, absolutely not

Thank you for providing clarity. You cannot deny complicity, though, by claiming you merely allow others to make those choices while you adhere to societal standards. You set your *own* standards. And I set mine. I will not use your app if reading A.I. books is permissible through it.

Speaking as a writer, I am asking you to ever so kindly FUCK OFF! This Uriah Heep act is not going to hold truck with any of us who actually bother to exercise their brain cells on the matter. You are peddling in stolen material facilitated by environmentally disastrous machinery.

Just deleted my bookmark on my laptop and also the app from my phone. It's Theft and you know it - but you won't stand by artists or authors - Shameful!

If I had to sum up my feelings about this in two words, it would be "fuck" and also "you"

ooooh, so y'all suck

Thanks for the heads up. Won't be using this.

This is a bunch of nonsense. I've been a Libby user for years, but if you think I won't drop your App like a hot potato if you go through with this AI-admittance policy, you're grossly mistaken.

nope

I want you to know I love reading.. but I absolutely hate AI. I actively avoid books with AI covers. Ai 'art' is theft and it greatly disappoints me that your service uses it. It's enough to make me not want to use your app at all. Please reconsider using that garbage.

This sucks. Goodbye.

So, you'll provide stolen books if that's what the libraries ask for. Except that AI stole the books for you and pretended they're original. You know better. Don't fence stolen goods.

Also, they've left out anyone who needs alt text

Seems reasonable.

TL;DR these pricks succumbed to AI.

Also, please use ALT text for your statements. It’s as easy as copying and pasting and would have taken you seconds.

listen to your users. we dont want your stupid ass gen AI tool. its pointless and wasteful and im going to find another app if it sticks around. also, taking down the in app survey because too many people are telling you they dont want this just shows you dont care about what we think.

Yeah, no clarity. Did chatGPT write this for you?

And Hoopla Digital continues to win

This is a huge bummer and wholly unnecessary

BOOOO

What is the default: Slop On, or Slop Off? If Slop is off by default, at least people can enjoy your app without getting scammed. If it's on by default, you are providing harm, not a choice.

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Oh, come on! I’ve spent the last year talking about how great Libby is! This sucks. Including AI-generated work in your catalog is an insult to every author and library and reader you claim to support. Boo!

They'll use only clean coal to generate the power for their AI bot farm! Minimal acid rain!

JFC I want to read books written by actual people, who think and read and edit and agonize and who understand the meaning and relevance of the written word. Not slop barfed out by a tech with no understanding of anything that’s already stolen millions of words from thousands of writers. JFC!

Wrong. Try again.

As a librarian, this is extremely disappointing to read.

Yeah, bye bye. No Libby for me. I'll let everyone know you suck.

Boooooo

"We know it's a plagiarism engine fueled by destruction, but we're going to use it anyway"

wanted to use ur app… now i never will! 💋

Trash decision from a now dumpster bin of an app. How disappointing

oh cool! deleted, will not be using libby again and im telling everyone i know that uses it to stop

Here's a real important question that you'll have to answer sooner than later: If they do not self-identify as AI content, will you ban or remove them?

So what you're saying is I should delete your app? As a library worker and a writer, that's what you're saying to me. AI is theft. AI is horrible for the environment. It is, at its nature, deceptive and unreliable. Shame on you.

If it has Libby Libby Libby on the label label label then you know that it promotes AI slop and isn't worth your time.

Nah.

No! Terrible Libby! Time to build alternatives to this kind of caving bs

This is a mistake, OverDrive.

absolute shameful and disgusting

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This is me letting you know you're choosing wrong and letting us down

Man, and I was so looking forward to those audiobooks I had on my phone.

I’ve never uninstalled something so quickly

I do not want AI written books getting recommended to me by AI. This is a terrible idea that will harm libraries, authors, and readers. What is wrong with you?

Chalk up another user you're losing because of these policies. 👋🏻

How do I purge this from my Libby app?

Oh come ON

Everyone disliked that.

Yeah, they’re acting all shady on purpose and sugarcoating things under corporate bs. They’re just using this AI slop to extort more money to libraries. This post is just a word salad to say “shut up and take it”

I'm sorry but do they not curate literature on *their* platform? I'm quite certain they have the ability to veto slop, and are choosing not to, in favor of letting it rip.

As opposed to AI crap?

this race to be the fastest to destroy your own app has got to stop. Libby was good while it lasted. 😭 RIP

Not gonna read all that but sorry this happened to you. Or congratulations on being clever

Just read the full policy. "We strive to have AI output respect intellectual property rights and adhere to ethical content standards."......literally lol. That's fundamentally at odds with the entire product. This is the wrong move in every way, and I have now deleted your app.

Good lord. In favor of using something trained on plagarized works to “create” AI slop? WTH?

Wouldn't it be a simpler policy and take a lot fewer words to describe if you just said, "NO" to all AI-generated written content?

Get rid of AI, now.

Ew, I don't want AI slop offered to me Gonna delete the LibbyApp until you reverse course

Say goodbye to all the libraries you're currently in

this is a huge slap in the face to readers and all real authors. AI has no place in creative spaces, if this is not reversed not only will I stop using Libby after years of activity, I'll warn everyone I can away from using it also.

Very disappointing.

Libby, how could you?!? I love you, but this is unconscionable!!

Boooooooo! No AI ever, yall. I’m a frequent user, absolutely hard line against this garbage

No ai slop in books. Full stop.