He Built Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom with AI

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Here’s a link to the tools themselves:

https://getartcraft.com/

I thought the story itself was pretty interesting and the implications for software distributed as binaries are huge.

They argue that they aren't decompiling or looking at the binary and are instead re-implementing based on observable behavior. If we take them at their word, then distributing the binary has nothing to do with it.

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