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.
An AI rewrite is just open source with more steps
Also theft.
Legally it isn’t, actually. Morally, yes.
Check out “AI has a labor issue, not a copyright issue” chapter of “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” by Cory Doctorow
It’s a hard chapter to read, but it’s important to understand.
EDIT: I love the downvotes for speaking the truth, seriously people, please understand. It’s important.