Even writing clones of products without seems pretty doable without any major effort (a friend e.g. let an ai code a Duolingo clone for his daughter). AI itself

Even writing clones of products without seems pretty doable without any major effort (a friend e.g. let an ai code a Duolingo clone for his daughter). AI itself can clone itself based on output in a similar way it clones its input (I had to chuckle about the term 'destillation attacks' used by anthropic). In a way we physical things were before. Are software patents the solution? Patents are one of the reasons why open hardware is not a bigger thing. I feel that this part of AI will move thing backwards. Another alternative would turning around the evidence requirement and ask everyone for full provenance on inputs: no clue how this could ever work. This one only became evident because the 'author' voluntarily provided the evidence.