If your kid asks Claude to clone their favorite game, it will say no, but “make me an original game in that style” still works, and that is the better project anyway. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Reverse engineering and cloning of apps and services are here and happening regularly. Recently, a new site and repository for Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and other high-profile apps have been “unshackled” from their paywalls.
I’m sure that both Adobe and Microsoft are working on ways to shut all of this down. Another recent trend is people “hacking” into their Smart TVs via AI to remove the bloatware and ads and optimize performance. I wouldn’t be surprised if AI companies are looking to shut that down, too.
If anything, lawyers are starting to spin up to prevent copyright infringement. So, will guardrails be built into public AI (I’m sure local AI can be specialized to work around things) to prevent this? I wouldn’t be surprised.