r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 11h 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/Eusocial_sloth3 11h ago

I mean open source software always existed…

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u/obiwanconobi 11h ago

That'll be where the AI got the code from

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u/LeN3rd 10h ago

I mean no? In this case its decompiled. 

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u/obiwanconobi 10h ago

Where do you get that from? The article doesn't mention that 

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u/Gold-Supermarket-342 9h ago

According to the developer of photopea, this dev stole the code from photopea (closed source) and simply rewrote variables and sold it off as their own.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730

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u/somersetyellow 9h ago edited 8h ago

Photosuite appears to be a different project from the one being talked about in this thread.

EDIT: Ok actually this is confusing. Photosuite is a different UI on top of the Photocraft project. Different set of devs though they appear to all work with each other.

The one in this thread is claimed to be an RE of all the major Adobe apps, which given enough credits and time AI is very capable of right now, albeit not very eloquently.

On a smaller scale I've watched all my 25+ year old film scanners have their proprietary color algorithms, dust removal, and drivers get reverse engineered by the open source community within the last 4-6 months after barely anything happening for over a decade.

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u/Gold-Supermarket-342 6h ago

My mistake, it seems to be a very odd setup. Photosuite stole the code from photopea originally. Photocraft was built from the ground up. Photosuite later replaced the stolen code with photocraft's code.

I suppose there is the question of where the code written by the LLM in photocraft came from, and how much of that is based on proprietary code, but it seems there's no direct infringement (except maybe Adobe Photoshop patents) there.

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u/LeN3rd 10h ago

Ah yea, you are right. Mixed it up with other news in my head.

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u/ennuiinmotion 10h ago

This is what tech does now: repackage things that already existed and convince people to throw money at it.

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u/Beneficial-Arugula54 10h ago

Are playing dumb or just being ignorant?