Open-Source AI Clones, Jobs and Deepfake Fraud

But there's fun things happening in the world and let's get started with, there's this software developer, I think his name is Brandon Thomas or something like that, who has created open source clones using AI of Adobe software, now Microsoft software, and even Worldcraft, the game.

And so folks are now sitting out here going, well, what else can we create a clone of that's for free of something that we used to pay significant commercial dollars for? Kate, is this going to be the new thing? Am I going to wake up every other day now and there's going to be a clone of some application out there? And like, will the entire financial model on which this industry rests start to fall apart? Just saying.

I think it's quite possible, actually.

And it doesn't – I don't think it surprises any of us, does it, to some degree? Like, I think we were expecting this.

So, yes, developer Brandon Thomas illustrates that.

So he used Cloud to create open source alternatives to Adobe, just like you said, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD.

I mean, AutoCAD was, like, really super pricey.

Now getting these free and – commercial, so these commercial products that can, I always think that they're, and Chris, we've talked about this too, this democratization of software and of hardware too.

And I think that this creates a totally different economy.

And I don't think that that's bad.

So yeah, this is what's happening and hello, let's see it, yes.

I don't know.

Sid, let me ask you about this because you live here in New York, as we were just talking about.

So Friday evening, I'm walking down the street in Bronxville on my way to dinner.

And I overhear a conversation taking place on a street corner where people are talking about this Adobe open source package.

So it's like a mainstream conversation already.

I was like, florida i had to like take a double take as i'm walking down the street i'm like wow people are actually like talking about this stuff on street corners so is this going to gain like you know a boatload of mainstream traction or maybe it already has and and this is like a new reality

i mean yeah i think the price the price is right right that's what they say so let's see how that how that plays out but i have my own doubts about how this is going to I mean, it certainly generates, affords more customization, portability, customer control, and all of that, right? No doubt about that.

And, yeah, the price is right.

It's going to create heavy-duty competition for, you know, license-based and subscription-based software, depending on the software of your choice that you've been using.

But I think AI-generated applications in general require, you know, much more creativity.

rigorous testing that they're currently going through in the world of AI apps.

There's vulnerability remediation issues.

There are cost issues.

Not cost, I don't mean just purchasing the software, but it's more about maintenance costs, running costs, deployment costs, you know, there's not enough knowledge out there to take these things and just sort of throw it into the enterprise world of, you know, robust application environments where people are running mission critical.