Then don't enable it, I hate the AI but there are people who want it and calibre implemented it the right way. Its opt in, you have to configure AI provider first before that no code related to ai is loaded. That's best way to implement AI.

Users can highlight any text and ask AI models questions about it, receiving explanations, context, or summaries on the spot.

I can see this being particularly useful for autistic people who don't understand a very poetic section, or for people reading a text which is not their first language.

My exact reaction to everything corpo llms push.

Usually im thinking, huh, I actually have a brain, so I dont need a single thing theyre offering (which is really nothing that hasn't been around for 15 years, chatbots).