That might seem to be the case, right up until he gets taken to court over it.

Never presume that a thing is legal (or will not later be punished) on the basis that someone is already doing it.

You can't stop it. This is just progress.

All software that isn't delivered over client/server to thin clients is now subject to being trivially cloned.

That was never in question, even before AI. It just took more monkeys at typewriters.