Comment by hn_submit

1 day ago

This entire A.I. hype is going to get many people burned, especially those whom are investing for their pensions.

And everyone is playing along. It seems to me half the internet is filled with false recommendations and overly optimistic outcomes of their software projects.

And even if the claims are true what use will we have for hundreds of Microsoft Office clones? This A.I. boom might benefit some but will be the undoing of many valuable ISVs like Microsoft and Adobe with potentially trillions of stock market value lost.

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aeve890  1 day ago

Adobe? How so? I didn't know Adobe was a big player in the AI boom

  • EA  1 day ago

    Adobe's applications (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc.) have been "cloned" using AI coding tools. There are near feature-complete freeware versions of Adobe software. OP is saying that traditional Adobe customers have freeware alternatives and thus Adobe's revenues will decline rather than increase due to AI. Also, AI tools can often generate that movie or edit that photo via a prompt, rather that some .exe.

    • omnimus  19 hours ago

      People are using Adobe for completely different reasons. They are so established in creative industry that everything rotates around their software including it's bugs and quirks. Schools teach only Adobe. When you go to high end printers they have processes prepared for output from Adobe software. There is whole market of specialized software plugins for Adobe. For the industry professionals it's just shared ground and cost of doing business.

      The AI clones won't easily change that unless they were exact 1to1. If it was that easy to get rid of Adobe the monopoly won't be there anymore as things like Affinity have existed for a while and are free. Affinity is in many ways even better version of Adobe suite, faster, more stable, allowing to be more creative. But the friction is extreme, because if you need to collaborate or be in any way part of the industry then Adobe is expected so you need it anyway.

    • tripledry  21 hours ago

      Question, how viable are these tools and are they maintained?

      I genuinely want to know if this is mostly hype or are they actually good. I don't think trying myself would really give a better picture as I'm not a user of said software.

      Anyone who tried to replace photoshop with these AI clones successfully?

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    • martin-t  19 hours ago

      I can't believe decompiling from ASM to a higher level lang using a matrix multiplicator should be legally any different from other decompilers.

      Nor should using the work of hundreds of millions of people to find useful weights for the matrices without paying them be legal.