I'm reading about a Word "clone", apparently made by the same people who recreated "clones" of Adobe's software suite.
I don't know how legal any of this is, and I'm not going to get into that. But I can't help smiling at the reactions.
When they started pushing AI, they told us we would lose our jobs, whether we liked it or not. That AI would replace us, whether we liked it or not.
Now that someone has decided to apply the very same principle to their products, suddenly they don't like it anymore.
"You can create new games, but you can't recreate existing ones."
Hurts, doesn't it?
And that's the point. The problem isn't the technology itself, but the way certain sharks use it at other people's expense. When they're the ones on the receiving end, and only then, ethics suddenly becomes a concern again.
@stefano, AI and robotics will not clone only Word but also the majority of workers. So we had to change our economic model, because there will be no many jobs left in the future. This will be mandatory.
From a technological point of view I'm very optimistic: automation, green energy, durable goods, etc...
From a social point of view, I have many more concerns because power corrupts, and as you noted, our ethic is far from optimal :-/
EDIT: and I am also frightened by the chaos of the intermediate period