Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.
The question for me is how this affects the copyright discussion. Microsoft and Adobe have been happy to use and promote AI which has stolen the work of others. When they go after Artcraft, and I’m sure they will, how do they manage to not look like the huge hypocrites they are?
I think youre right, theyll try. Though for ‘managing’, I don’t think that will matter. They don’t really need to.
The point of being a legislative giant is that your lawyers use whatever angle will work on a technicality for whatever profit goal you’re trying to achieve. Often throwing bullshit arguments one after another, to drown your opposition in paperwork, burden of proof or legal fees until they’re forced to cave just to minimise losses.
Companies are abstract entities that don’t have any actual principles of copyright to be hypocritical about, and the principles of the many people within them are scarcely relevant at scale as their jobs are dependant on compliance to rules imposed above them.
The owners of these companies won’t have to manage anything, because they’re insulated from consequence and the company is treated as a separate entity, for some reason.
Great, more slop
Yeah, why would you waste time with these instead of Gimp, OpenOffice, etc? Except for the clicks.
You’ve obviously never used Photoshop or GIMP because if you have then you would immediately understand why. GIMP is a completely different experience, and its UX is far inferior to Photoshop. On top of that, anybody who is used to the workflow in Photoshop will have a very steep learning curve using GIMP.
Believe it or not, but most people just want a tool that works for what they’re trying to do. These apps have some bugs and rough edges still, but they’re very much usable and make it trivial to switch for anybody who’s used to Photoshop.
The venn diagram of what GIMP does and what Photoshop does isn’t the singular circle people assume. I, too, loathed my time with GIMP wondering how it ever got so popular in the OSS community, but then you realize it’s kind of all they have so of course they’ll support it no matter what.
I haven’t used it in years and based on that experience, I’m not rushing to try it again anytime soon. The UI felt like a UX designer’s prank on the world.
Yeah, you should definitely try using it again - especially since the big 3.0 release.
Menus and tool names/functions still do not map perfectly onto Photoshop’s (it is its own thing after all, so why should it?), but it is a serious and sophisticated piece of software. Easily adequate for my professional reproduction work.
I switched to it from Photoshop two or three years ago and had to spend a few hours watching tutorials and reading the manual to make the transition. But now there is hardly anything I can’t do in GIMP at least as fast, easily and reliably as I could in Photoshop.
i assume this person is making a statement more than anything. but gimp is not an adobe alternative. affinity is but not gimp. but since this is an open source commjnity i should point out affinity is not open source
It is funny though. Microsoft being undermined by the very thing they’re using to undermine working class people.
Funny seeing people losing their shit yet again in front of “AI” claims…
Like all the other spectacular previous claims that is not mentioned: it’s a bird with half wings - it does not fly.
I also created a Photoshop clone, the only caveat is it crashes at start, BUT I TOTALLY DID IT!
Did you try it? No. You concluded that if it works, your worldview breaks, so it cannot work.
But someone tried it.
https://lemmy.ml/post/53794973
(Don’t look at the post I linked, your fragile worldview can’t handle that)
I watched the video (partially because I can’t stand it, such annoying video).
So what’s your point?? Go use it if that’s your turf, don’t come around insulting me for no reason.
Do you have a skin in that fame? Why are you so uptight about a vibecoded project? And you are all on the defensive while telling me I have a fragile worldview he he… Projection? Maybe?
There are ton of missing features, buggy ones, crashes… What’s the point of your dummy doing some tests on the slop?
My point was/is: it seems easy to claims victory these days with half a winning battle.
My point still hold, while yours seem moot.
Good day my little world shattering wannabe ;)
