I see the opposite: AI has made it so easy to reverse engineer closed source stuff, that there's no point in closed source software anymore: anybody with a good AI in their hands will be able to completely RE whatever closed source you have and do whatever they want with it: pirate or create a clone or whatever. Also, find security holes. At this point, closing the source is really not doing a whole lot for you.
> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over
The point of open source is that if your project is really good, people will not only clone it, but contribute their changes to it. Having a million forks is not productive and does not help the community at all, and, frankly, doesn't happen when the open source software is really useful: at some point people will get together and work for one of the "copies" to become the one everybody works with.
If your open source project gets forked and everybody starts contributing to the fork, maybe you should rethink how you approach your relationship with the community.
> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over
The point of open source is that if your project is really good, people will not only clone it, but contribute their changes to it. Having a million forks is not productive and does not help the community at all, and, frankly, doesn't happen when the open source software is really useful: at some point people will get together and work for one of the "copies" to become the one everybody works with.
If your open source project gets forked and everybody starts contributing to the fork, maybe you should rethink how you approach your relationship with the community.