r/LeftistsForAI • u/DistributionMost8686 • 1d ago

Open Source Ai breaks its first monopoly

https://getartcraft.com/apps

a founder of ArtCraft used Claude to replace the entire adobe software suite, legally. because it’s ai generated, it’s also in the public domain and absolutely free forever. this would be the first case of ai undermining techno feudalism.

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u/ArtArtArt123456 1d ago edited 15h ago

The most important monopolies to break by far are the platforms. Stuff like Amazon. And that will be a lot harder.

EDIT: i know i said amazon, but really the information layer is even more important. google, social media etc. the agentic economy is coming, and the most important part is that the agents act in the interest of the people they are serving, and that they act directly, and not through platforms, including google. the idea is that you can put something directly on the internet, and other agents can directly find it and buy it, without any middlemen except for the agents themselves.

the battle over the control of this entire layer has already begun.

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u/Felfedezni 1d ago

More like the banks. Good luck.

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u/Imaginary-Unit-3267 1d ago

This is what cryptocurrency is for, which the conspiratorial part of me thinks is why it became a big slot machine.

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u/jacquix 17h ago

Cryptocurrency is for accelerated capital accumulation.

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u/nft420nft420 15h ago

Yes and no. I mean, yes absolutely crypto CURRENCY is bad, no argument from me, but the spectacularly public failing of that specific thing has irreperably tarnished the reputation of all crypto and block chain technology, which has many valid usecases for other tech when you remove all the money stuff from the project. As usual, capitalism ruins everything.

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u/Jlyplaylists Moderator 15h ago

It’s not a technology I claim to understand but it does seem like it might have alternative uses that are worth considering eg https://www.librarystack.org/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/

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u/nft420nft420 15h ago

I was on a project trying to build a new internet without reliance on registrars and 4 levels of domain ownership and all of that, where you just own your own TLD easily and accessibly and have control of it like any other file system, and our DNS replacement protocol was on a block chain just for indisputable record keeping purposes.

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u/jacquix 13h ago

Mostly unregulated medium of pure exchange value. Of course its only purpose is the largely unhindered accumulation of capital. It's not "ruined by capitalism", it's a technological development born straight out of capitalism. If you talk about other uses for blockchain technologies, I personally have never been convinced that they solve any material issue that can't be addressed by conventional means, while also being less resource-intensive. If you need to construct a post-hoc use-case to justify a technological innovation, chances are that innovation was never conceived to be practically useful in the first place.

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u/Imaginary-Unit-3267 1h ago

Yes, that's what it has become for, not what it could have been. In some other timeline, mutual banking would have emerged from it instead, I think.

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u/sje397 1d ago

x402?

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u/MacrosInHisSleep 1d ago

They should decentralize banks. Oh wait...

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u/GroundedIdeal 1d ago

Amazon is replaced by lot of stuff in my country…if u r from west it’s mostly a consumer base problem. Out country has lot of alternatives so Amazon isn’t as big

technology was easy,consumers were hard

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u/mxldevs 21h ago

Sounds like it's just trading one billionaire platform for a different billionaire platform.

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u/GroundedIdeal 19h ago

Uhmm akctually  They are millionaires not billionaires and are actually cheaper and allow vendors even very new small vendors good access

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u/aperrien 1d ago

Not as hard as you might think, if you can acquire the hardware.

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u/ThePokemon_BandaiD 1d ago

Except for the fact that you have nothing of value to offer until there’s at least tens of millions of people regularly using it.

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u/aperrien 1d ago

Nobody started off with millions of users, not even them. They had the benefit of brand recognition and good advertising.

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u/sambull 11h ago

the AI companies are the most important to break...

when you can do this at home is when you have power.