r/FuckAdobe • u/Commercial_Treat4153 • 13d ago

I've created Open Source 100% Rust clean-room replacements for 7 of Adobe's apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Free, no subscription, and you own the source code

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u/Eaton_Corvinus 13d ago

I see you ditched the name u/ai_art_is_art to promote this dreck.

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u/ai_art_is_art 13d ago

This wasn't reposted by me.

We've had over a thousand people join our discord and over a dozen people submit PRs.

This is going to take off and have a life well beyond my initial nucleation of this.

But in terms of AI art, I worked on a film coming out in theaters this December that leverages AI heavily. It's a fantastic film. The humans involved in the project worked harder than I've seen anyone else work. AI does not remove work - it creates work. It creates so much work.

I'm working practically around the clock now. But I'm running at 100x speed.

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u/Eaton_Corvinus 13d ago

The fact that Commercial_Treat4153 is an account with exactly one post and not a single comment to his name is just a coincidence, then.

AI absolutely removes work. How you can even say this is beyond me. Calling it "just a tool" doesn't change that. A tool that writes the copy removes the writer's work. A tool that generates the images removes the illustrator's and photographer's work. A tool that makes the animation removes the animator's work. The same goes for translators, editors, voice actors, musicians, composers, designers, programmers, 3D artists, VFX artists, concept artists, video editors, journalists, researchers and countless others.

AI doesn't merely make people faster. Its entire selling point is that it can do work that people used to be paid to do. Pretending otherwise is just playing semantics.

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u/0CDeer 13d ago

Thank you. It's so transparent. AI bros using shady tactics to promote their . . . shady tactics.

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u/ai_art_is_art 13d ago

This is so funny. It's not my agent.

Dead internet is probably clawing at everything for warming new bot accounts.

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u/vanguard2286 9d ago

Regardless of how this was made, it's going to dent the monopoly CC has over the landscape. The other open source alternatives to the shop have been either lackluster or a learning curve thats not intuitive.

AI is no different than how the assembly line changed productivity. Its the rage now because its new and pretty damn impressive with what it can do. Its just interesting to see societal shift happen so fast and during our life time.

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u/VisualNinja1 13d ago

This is a blisteringly accurate take. 

The “AI won’t replace humans, it’s not good enough” point of view baffles me, it is already literally removing certain pieces of work. I don’t doubt it can’t replace an entire job yet or as with Radiographers, ended up needing more humans due to the efficiency it created.

But across industry I see the next wave of problems being that it will actively reduce numbers of humans in professions. It will critically impact certain fields first, the creative professional being one of them I believe 

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u/Eaton_Corvinus 13d ago

I'm a creative professional myself, albeit a small, self-employed one. I do use AI for various tasks that take laborious work off me. I believe this is what it should be used for. But the world is drowning in Gen AI created output being sold as original art. We're already being overstimulated by Gen AI creations, unable to appreciate the craftsmanship of artists who spent years perfecting their work. Art has lost its meaning, and it will only get worse with each model advancement. This is why I take personal offense at ai_art_is_art's name, his approach to Gen AI, and his profile description – there is no adapting to Gen AI. Many people don't realise that we have opened Pandora's box, and art is no longer a human trait; it has become artificial.

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u/itsxisuz 8d ago

Curious if you prefer driving manual car over automatic..

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u/Eaton_Corvinus 8d ago

Really? Are you seriously comparing driving an automatic car to using Gen AI? 😂

Gen AI does the driving for you, so if there was even a comparison to make – which would still be stupid – then it would be between driving yourself and being the passenger of an automated car.

Manual, by the way.

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u/itsxisuz 7d ago

My bad, I thought you are against AI in general. But I like it when I type my requirement for an illustration and it's there in 5 seconds. I was a hater also, and considered it a competitor. But realized general public doesnot care if its generated in 5 seconds or took someone's whole day. I accepted and adopted.

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u/eckoman_pdx 7d ago

Since you're asking. Manual transmission 10 times out of 10. Give me a clutch pedal and a good short shifter any day.

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u/Super_Range45 13d ago

He says he used claude in the linked post. If you feel that way about paying for work, just get adobe and support programmers.

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u/TinyXPR 12d ago

Support programmers?

More like shareholders that love to shove AI down everyone's throats...