One of the essential technologies behind BOOK REPORT is a large language model. Given that there are significant ethical concerns around the training and use of LLMs, it's important to disclose and discuss their usage in BOOK REPORT.
This level of granularity is only possible because LLMs contain a significant amount of copyrighted material. Their cognitive abilities make them uniquely adept at taking in to account individual preferences. If you want less LLMs involved in your book recommendations, The Storygraph has significantly less LLM usage.
Our hope is that you will buy, or check out from your local library, the books that BOOK REPORT recommends.
BOOK REPORT will only use open-weights models running on providers that do not train on inputs.
The current model BOOK REPORT runs on is Deepseek R1. The training and operation of Deepseek models uses significantly less energy than many of their Western counterparts.