I'm 99.9% sure that Adobe and all other big tech companies are using LLMs to generate code. So it's slop either way, but one is at least free and open source

Of course the established alternatives like Krita, Gimp, Inkscape and others are even better, no questions there

I think it's worth reminding people where the general left wing FOSS conscious was before AI. Every week we'd see an article that was the antithesis of ownership, from celebrating the end of Disney copyright to loopholes in trademarks and the like, it was the heart of a lot of content.

There is a fantastic foreword foreword in The Picture of Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde about art for art's sake that I think about a lot, which really boils down to a litany for art for art's sake, (and by extension education for education's sake), that is overlooked in favour of being for the sake of profit or capital.

I am of the opinion that in response to AI, we have drifted from a left wing overall movement that rejected ownership in this way, to a protective, defensive style that is largely that stance of a neo-luddide, without any awareness of what ended that era, which was an insufficient boycott and misspent manpower.

I want to say, I'm someone who is overall against AI, I'm not sure how to prove it, any any time I try to explain points like this, people claim AI wrote my comment.

AI is evil, and has enormous destructive capacity, but making the walled garden of large capitalist software irrelevant in favour of FOSS solutions is a huge win, even in regards to being a result of AI.

I'd rather the water, electrical and creative debt that is incurred by AI is paid off by programs like this, than see companies like Adobe operate, particularly considering they literally changed their TOS to train their internal AI on user data.

Either way, your data is being used to train AI, regardless of if you use Photoshop or Photocraft, but one is FOSS, and openly made with that data.

As i recall, the claim for the entire suite was that it was "clean-room". No code stolen... unless you are concerned that the entire model is the result of stolen code... in which case we are in agreement.

stealing from the people is wrong, but i support stealing from the bourgeoise.

Yes but the Adobecucks have proven time and again they'd rather take ungreased Adobe pole than learn an alternative.

You are not going to get a 10-year graphic designer to exclaim "Oh, wow, it's called GIMP? I've never heard of it before, thank you!"

They're gonna keep coming after hardware ownership and jacking up prices like they've been working on. Even if you get an Intel Arc Pro card that's moderately affordable, you're gonna need a reBAR / Above 4G decoding compatible mobo to handle it, along with all the other system components that are already unaffordable for most.

They're gonna buy up platforms like they did with Hugging Face to stop as much proliferation of the open-weight models as they can. And enshittify them ala every other thing they own

No more tinfoil hats and excuses, this shit is happening and is gonna keep happening. If revenue can go up, they're gonna make it go up at any cost.

The final cost may be deadly.

Edit: for the record, I agree with you.

There already a bunch of good open source alternatives but some reason everyone wants to stay with adobe

Yeah, if this is used as precisence then all open source software can be done dirty the same way. It's a dangerous legal precedent. Also, the slop machine stole code from many devs ignoring all licenses to create the slop.

Its unsafe code which would do anything. I don't suggest running it under any circumstance either.

Fuck man I'm so happy for this specific instance, fuck adobe, but I have to hate it.

What would be cool, but won't happen, is if this kinda just forced out an essential "mit license for everything" wild west situation. It won't, corps will fuck ot, but would be cool

I just hope Adobe sue Anthropic

Juts pirate photoshop

Fuck that, piracy gives them more legitimacy than they deserve. I will use gimp.

That's still leaves you dependent on a corporation. I prefer a world where they no longer exist because it isn't economically viable anymore.