What's your opinion on this clean room re-implementation of Photoshop? (github.com)

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Even if it works despite being AI slop that's been developed in a mere 4 days (?) and somehow has all these contributors, I'm not sure I agree with the idea.

It's cool that they went with Rust for it, but I would have much preferred if all that effort went towards improving GIMP and existing open formats.

If it works then I guess it's the same end result at the end of the day, but it would suck if GIMP doesn't end up being the one to put a nail on Photoshop's coffin after all these years of serious development by humans.

Edit: I already see the kneejerk dislikes coming, I'm just interested in starting a conversation about the idea of it, I also dislike the fact that it's AI slop as I already implied. I'd appreciate joining the conversation instead of dislike bombing with no argument.

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[-] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 50 points 6 days ago

Arguing such thing is "open source" is misleading as 1/ contributors can hardly call themselves "authors" of this code 2/ nobody can demonstrate that the plagiarizing engine they used did not plagiarize proprietary source code or source code published under an incompatible license.

as in "you cannot claim a room is clean if you have never been in it, haven't built it, and cannot even know what's in it"

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not to mention the hoard of software patents Adobe will unleash their horde of lawyers with if this becomes anything more than a bad joke. Although that would make for an interesting precedent.

[-] Hexorg@beehaw.org 6 points 6 days ago

Either Adobe wins which maybe will shut up vibe coders or vibe coders win which maybe will shut up Adobe. Either way win win

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Adobe would have to prove the model that generated this was trained on its stolen code. And Adobe's code contains zero Rust while the Craft suite is 100% rust, so it's certainly not simply regurgitating Adobe's code.

If you learn from others by studying their code, is the organic artisanal code you create also necessarily stolen?

Let Adobe prove AI is trained on their codebase. Fuck Adobe, and fuck the copywrite system.