For anyone that's interested, it is vibe-coded slop. I installed their photoshop clone, pasted in a picture, tried curves, and the text tool. Curves would only show up in the side panel, and it didn't feel like it was making the colors do what they should. Trying to select text after you've typed it makes it disappear. Trying to change the font relied on a dropdown that (unlike PS), doesn't show you what each typeface looks like, and you can't scroll through the dropdown, you just have to manually choose one font at a time.

This ain't it. You're better off with Krita, Gimp, or even Photopea.

Why would anyone want to use that slop, when GIMP is right there?

I guess they did it for fun and lulz

I cannot comment on this specific case because I have not looked at the source code or products, but there's a bigger story here that most people are missing. In the last week, LLMs have been used to decompile multiple video games into human-readable source code that can be easily modified by humans or LLMs. These have resulted in projects mixing elements from Mario, Elden Ring, Minecraft, etc. LLMs are now able to decompile software into usable source (and check if said source compiles to match the original, on a loop).

I am struggling to wrap my mind around the consequences of this development. It basically means that all commercial, closed-source software can now be pirated and modified at will, assuming you have the money to pay for LLM tokens for the decompilation process.

Doesn't look like a decomp, but a vibecoded clone. A decomp would get sued into oblivion anyway.

I highly doubt this will ever replace the originals, but Adobe would deserve that.

mfs will do literally anything besides use GIMP

It's an interesting story, but the comments over there throw some plausible doubt on the "decompiled" aspect.

Holy shit they have a pricing structure? Def gonna catch a lawsuit

Yayyy! The golden age of AI stealing from companies is here. I could cry.

So all of a sudden hooray for AI, who cares about the water and carbon emissions and "theft" and whatnot?

It was never really about those things in the first place, I'm guessing.

and released it as OSS

NO THEY FUCKING HAVEN'T! ALL THEY'VE DONE IS PIRATE IT WITH EXTRA STEPS!

Bet these big software companies are feeling real silly about selling their source code for AI training and/or forcing their employees to use cloud-based AI tools. I guarantee that their shit is in the training data either way.

I downloaded the Illustrator clone, ran it and it looked correct. But I didn't try using it beyond looking at the menus. I can't imagine Adobe won't try to do something about this.

Meh I'll skip

It would be cool if it was not AI slop and buggy

It's defo not a decomp. The footprint wouldn't be anywhere so tiny & the code so tidy.

Anyway this: https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft/pull/115 makes it suddenly very interesting, because this one thing could propel the usefulness beyond LR, given it actually works well.

Looks like all the in program AI gen is done in the cloud and the monthly pricing is about credits to that. There is also a web version. Does the suite work disconnected from the internet with or without the AI gen? As someone in print design and production I don't see the magic word I always look for in these alternate tools: Pantone...