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Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subscription-based services may come next (www.tomshardware.com)

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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.

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[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Where's the legal limit?

If I use AI to make and sell a Ford truck, will Ford sue and we can get precedent that AI use is still a copyright violation?

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 19 hours ago

if you didnt call your truck ford or used patented stuff

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't really think that copyright is the major issue here, but patents. Adobe has a metric tones of patents and the rebuilds will most likely conflict with a some or even lots of them.

[-] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

AI itself is theft

[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 points 1 day ago

Only 99% of the time.

It's possible to build models on only copyleft data, and include all relevant attribution

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 7 points 1 day ago

Just brand it fjord

[-] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You wouldn't download a car?

[-] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 5 points 1 day ago

I have and I will

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