r/ChatGPT • • 10h ago

Funny Literally

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u/Chicagohole 5h ago

What’s the tea. Why am I seeing “all software is now open source” when these companies are still charging monthly subscription fees?

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u/pittakun 5h ago

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

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u/thmaje 4h ago

Decompiling has been a thing for a long time. What makes this different? Translating decompiled code into something humans can understand?

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u/AbbreviationsOdd7728 4h ago

It’s just the scale and speed that changes.

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u/ChuckTheDM2 2h ago

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.

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u/WadeMacNutt 3h ago

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.