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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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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also I disagree with that label. I'm taking the radical position that... it's probably fine. It largely works, and people can do stuff with it. Staying mad about it is poorly justified and bad for your health. It's just a chatbot. Make your peace.

Meanwhile the insistence that 'AI [thing] isn't [thing]!' gets shakier and fuzzier, but no less loudly confident. An AI cartoon isn't a drawing, sure. But it is an image conveying someone's idea. AI music is still a song, by any definition. It's usually well within western music theory. AI reverse engineering has demonstrably produced byte-for-byte identical results, and some folks still insist it doesn't count, somehow. What is anyone supposed to say to that? It's an absurd denial framed like philosophy. A counter-poke and saying 'relax' do not make someone a delusional cultist.

You have to be able to understand disagreement in terms besides an opposite extreme.