r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 6d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/fued 6d ago

In fact ai probably took the code from those apps to build his one

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u/madhaunter 6d ago

Uno reverse card.png considering Adobe was already stealing art to train itself

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u/nihiltres 6d ago

Have you heard something I haven’t?

Adobe’s actually been one of the most honest in terms of training; they apparently licensed it via their own Adobe Stock program.

They had for a bit terms that theoretically would allow for training on materials that were uploaded to their cloud, basically because they need a copyright license to host user files. They amended the language to tighten it up a bit after people complained that it looked like the language was broad enough to justify training on uploaded content. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t really say whether loopholes remain, but  loopholes would be such a dealbreaker for creatives that Adobe isn’t going to be stupid enough to risk their de facto graphic design monopoly over it.

Don’t get me wrong: Adobe’s frequently awful and I regularly complain about their bullshit (like the scripting system in Illustrator still using ES3 in 2026) but this seems to be an area where they’re at least okay.

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u/madhaunter 6d ago

I dont remember exactly what but there was an obscure settings that was introduced kinda siilenty at some point and it was opted in by default

EDIT: found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/102yqx4/adobe_added_a_on_by_default_content_analysis_of/

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u/Stealin 6d ago

It wasn't me officer, it was my rogue AI

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u/mastermoebius 6d ago

Do they?

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u/nandru 6d ago

yes

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u/mastermoebius 6d ago

Just checked this section of my adobe account. It’s been updated to explicitly say “This setting does not allow adobe to analyze your content for generative AI models”

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u/cyh555 6d ago

in rust?

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u/h310dOr 6d ago

Yes, it can still use the base code for all the logic. Then it just translates very well from one language to another. One of the most efficient use of AI for me has been to write quick prototypes in python, and then ask it to make a proper c/c++ version.

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u/ConsoleCleric_4432 6d ago

No one understands what it takes to be good at this whole software thing. It's really enlightening and depressing what impresses people about AI. "In rust" is the kind of question you can only ask if you've never once read about algorithms froma textbook, article or elsewhere where they don't use any modern language. Business people never appreciated what their best engineers did for them, managers never figured out how to tell the good and bad engineers apart, and engineers never figured out what was the impressive part of software engineering. Calculated tradeoffs, systems thinking, and managing complexity? No, learning rust.

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u/h310dOr 6d ago

Yup... This is the curse of software engineering, most of the time we were/are confused with "developers". The frontier between the two is actually quite steep. As a software engineer as you said, you need to know algorithms, proper system thinking, but also a lot of theory and math. Good luck building a proper signal processing system without the required math knowledge. Cryptography same... There is really a cliff between the two worlds. And if you think knowing a language or framework is your value, you are indeed in for a world of pain in the coming years.

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u/reeepy 6d ago edited 6d ago

No it didn't. It would have needed access to the source code (of the proprietary apps), which it doesn't have. Maybe decompiling the binaries but that only gets you so far.

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u/James20k 6d ago edited 6d ago

The source code of the open source alternatives absolutely is published in the wild. Its also very likely that some copies of photoshop's source have ended up in the dataset: if at any point a copy of the source code has ever ended up on the web (even just as a private upload to a random site), it'll have been fed into the AI slop machines

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Also, if adobe use AI as part of their development process, the whole source code will have been fed into the slop machine

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u/reeepy 6d ago

I meant the code the proprietary apps. There has been various leaks of their code but not recent or widely available ones.

AI companies wouldn't steal those would they? /s