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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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmmm... So if someone used CoPilot, which is owned and operated by Microsoft, to copy something Microsoft owns, like Office, does that mean that no copyright infringement actually occurred, because Microsoft can't infringe on their own copyright?

It seems there may even be an argument that an agent of Microsoft willingly released that code.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You don't even need to use Microsoft's AI, you can use any AI you want that is capable enough for the task.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

From a technical perspective, yes. I was looking at it from an angle where the company has released their own code via an agent they control. Sort of like calling Microsoft support and asking "hey, can you send me the source code for Office please?"