Copycats are not a new problem. You can be completely open source and have a trademark on the project name.
It might be mitigated a bit by having a website that doesn't look like AI slop, just to differentiate it from the duplicates which are also AI slop.
It might be mitigated a bit by having a website that doesn't look like AI slop, just to differentiate it from the duplicates which are also AI slop.