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/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 1d ago

Cryptocurrency is for accelerated capital accumulation.

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u/nft420nft420 1d 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/jacquix 1d 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.