If you use the Libby app with your local library, it has a set of options that let you filter out various kinds of AI-generated material. They're in the app settings under Content Controls: AI Contributions.
@jalefkowit But you need to turn "deep search only" OFF, I've heard, because otherwise it won't filter books that are already in your local library.
@irina I'm giving my librarians the benefit of the doubt for now. If it turns out they're buying slop I will flip that switch too
FYI, for anyone not seeing the AI options, scroll down to the version number on the settings page. Mine had a version number hotlink that added the AI options after I hit it.
@jalefkowit @emery gosh it took me forever to find where these are but I have changed my settings. Thank you
Oct 18, 2026, 9:00 AM@clevergirl42 @jalefkowit @emery Me too; if anyone else is also struggling to find Settings in the Libby app, go to the bottom bar and touch the middle “Menu” blob - between the library and the books blobs - and then *scroll down* to see Settings.
@jalefkowit
I love how it changes the color to red when you select human only, as if to tell you that you're making the wrong choice. That has to be intentional.
@jargoggles its greenish/yellowish/red in the standard go/slow/stop orientation of a stoplight dawg
@nora
Right, which is why in UI terms, green means everything's good, yellow means caution, and red indicates something is wrong. Warnings are yellow, errors are red.
If you make a dashboard where something turns red when you make a change, I guarantee that almost everyone's immediate thought will be that they did something wrong.
@jargoggles you should probably take this to therapy
@nora
I mean, weird trollish antagonism aside, the constant dark patterns we all have to navigate as part of day-to-day life is something my therapist has brought up as an extremely common contributor to baseline anxiety and stress. So I guess, kinda sorta?
@jargoggles you're not really drawing reasonable conclusions from that hypervigilance. you could just be ingroup signaling and spreading your own anxiety around, i guess, then it will not really help
@nora
I can't tell if you genuinely believe that nobody involved in designing the Libby app understands that colors mean things or if you're just jumping into a random conversation to make bizarrely ableist remarks about a complete stranger out of boredom. The way you're playing mad libs with therapy lingo makes it seem like the latter.
@jalefkowit the libby app is so fucking good at helping surface interesting things it makes me mad about the entire rest of everything. being able to hide children's titles and show only first books in a series and use random sorting is incredible
Oct 19, 2026, 1:47 PM@nora @jalefkowit holy cow, my local library in Reykjavík is on Libby! Dang!