The current business model of the big LLM providers is unsustainable. They are burning money to get people hooked. Which means maintaining and developing these applications will become a lot more expensive, once the providers need to make money. If these projects don't have a solid plan for this event, they'll probably just get abandoned.

I mean I love that they are sticking it to Adobe but they are slop by nature. If it's at least useful slop or if you should just use the actual open-source alternatives is debatable, I don't have any talent with these programs anyway. I'd say learn the open-source alternatives but maybe try the artcraft stuff if you truly can't do something in the open-source program, but that's just my uneducated opinion.

I tried photocraft and it's certainly usable. The video editor however wouldn't play anything I added to the timeline at all. I also tried the MS word clone and it's just janky-looking (like the text formatting seems to change if I click on the page? Hard to explain). I'd take pirated PS over it anyday though. One thing I can say is that photocraft is very fast to launch compared to Photoshop.

My tinfoil conspiracy theory is that artcraft is actually a 5d chess move from the "anti-ai" camp to draw bigtech attention and get them to turn against LLMs on principle, or at least get them to implement some sort of anti-app-cloning thing like anthropic recently did for games.

Not really but that'd be funny i suppose.

100% slop

I've checked its girhub before and photocraft has a lot of contributors, over 400. But the apps are made mostly by claude code. Personally id never use these apps but so far theyvebeen receiving updates quickly with humans adding new bugfixes (humans or maybe more vibe coders...).

I installed the flatpak out of curiosity and these artxraft apps receive updates fast in my opinion, a d they add more things like a reverse engineer app or solidcraft thing.

in my opinion, even with human bugfixes and that, its still slop, I trust other foss alternatives.

I wouldn't trust them to be long for the world, that and IMO they're legally dubious.

Just use one of the established alternatives like GIMP/Krita, RawTherapee/Darktable, Inkscape, etc.

I've been using them happily, and they do what I need. So, to me, this is real useful software that's replacing proprietary solutions.