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AI Decompiling Applications Will Change How Digital Products Get Released

I'm not really the brightest one talking about the subject but this deserves attention given how much disruption it's going to be in the future.

AI can decompile products with protected IP and make their own version of the same product. I saw some posts on X sharing how Adobe products getting their free version. It lacked the 1:1 functionality from the original (nice features and all) but it does produce most of the functions.

It doesn't need to be 1:1 copy, the other version can just be decent or made better than the original.

And I think, wow, that's amazing, now people can get more free stuff now.

But this kills the drive to create good products because there's someone or a group out there that will purposively make a living decompiling new products and create their bootleg versions, perhaps improving on the original product too.

Imagine pouring your heart and soul into building an app only for someone else to decompile the thing and do whatever they want with it.

It's not just simple applications and games the public consumes. Imagine this level of tech applied to military software and cybersecurity? we're entering into new spaces were intellectual property protection hasn't adapted as fast as AI does things.

Imagine using AI to decompiling the Hive funded projects here.

Thanks for your time.

Comments · 3

@ryivhnn(73)· 3d
Free software (with readily available source code so you don't even need to decompile it first) exists.

I hope these "bootleg" AI versions are at least done properly and securely now, I've previously read fun stuff about how AI will kind of just default to making it "work" (as in do what the human wants it to do) but under the hood can get severely garbled if you don't keep an eye on it/know what you're doing to be able to keep an eye on it.

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@sanjeevm(79)· 4d

Imagine pouring your heart and soul into building an app

That's going to stop in the long run, as AI only will build everything :) No more heart and soul 😊
@molometer(72)· 5d
Software has always been cracked in the past. Now no one's ip is safe. Imagine how fb etc feels 😂👍