I’ve been disappointed to see the ongoing addition of various elements to Newsblur that involve LLMs. I am firmly disinterested in “features” that make use of a tool that’s known to be vague, imprecise, and occasionally outright factually wrong, not to mention a huge waste of resources to create its outputs. I know that when some new features in a piece of software go live, they’re enabled by default – andI don’t want to have to pay attention to every new update announcement in order to know I must go into my settings and turn off another new addition. Could you please implement an option where a user can toggle a setting to have all LLM-related features, both current and future, completely disabled for their account? That way I won’t have to worry about what might be added in the future without me noticing.
You can disable any individual LLM feature you like. I’m not making a “no new changes ever” button. NewsBlur has always been, since 2009, a “news reader with intelligence”. There are no plans to turn NewsBlur into something different than it always has been, which is a way to pare down the massive firehose of RSS into something transparently manageable.