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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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[–] klankin@piefed.ca 30 points 1 week ago

C-clean room AI?

So like someone wrote trillions of lines of training data just for this project?

Ooorrrr did a fancy search engine hype them up that they're a cool kid now and they wanted to believe it so bad they're willing to claim ownership over anything