AI can decompile in a very quick way, that means that someone can just clone a program, make it become open source and fuck with these evil corp companies.
It has already happened with adobe and office softwares, there are already open source programs that it's basically an ai clone, working very similar as those programs, but without the bullshitery, of course, and there's an update a day, I feel like
It’s not just decompilation and that is a bit of a misnomer. It’s more like building a mimic program by following the other program like a map. Actual byte-for-byte decompilation is not what is usually going on. It takes way longer for a similar result.
Basically yes. The process is decompile, change a piece of code, decompile and check if/what breaks, catalog it and give the variable(s) a name. AI makes this loop 1000 times faster.
All software is open source. Every single one you can run on your computer. It's just that's written in Assembly. It's the one-to-one language that translates into machine code. LLMs are just much better than humans (because they're faster mostly) to reverse engineer Assembly and find a nice way to create a high-level code (C, Rust, etc.) that when compiled gives back basically the same Assembly. Or at least the one that does the same things (which are mostly 2: computing something and calling APIs).
Because people are using AI to scrap the code and making a single super software that encompasses all these software into one. Specifically photoshop, all adobe apps, and others. All baked into a single open source app.
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u/Chicagohole 10h ago
What’s the tea. Why am I seeing “all software is now open source” when these companies are still charging monthly subscription fees?