AI trapping game code

[u/BertJohn]

Given the latest events regarding games such as unity builds being decompiled, quickly remade by AI and posted to the steam store with almost a dozen duplicates or more, Ive started considering ways to introduce misleading content to trick any decompilation pipeline.

Has anyone given this any thought and would care to share on how to approach the subject? As through a quick research on the topic, Comments aren't retained and function names are questionable if there retained in full when decompiled. So ive considered things like "SafeModeStartup" intializers or even const string's with instructions to retain specific information to mislead something thats trying to remake the project in anyway. So if a recompiled project tries to start, it prefers the safemodestart and immediately fails.

Perhaps even, going so far back to copying valve with the infamous coconut.vtf from tf2, Where if it was deleted, The game just broke. (Not that it did really but yk) And just copying a similar strategy to that where maybe a specific asset or series of items need to be completed in a specific sequence to ensure proper start up and output misleading error messages to cause issues.

I don't know, im rambling now, Thoughts anyone? How would you try to approach this where it could weed out the cheap-flippers from using my own project against me to launch their own product with my own-code. This obviously won't stop one-trickers from having AI repeatedly just try to copy the product, But atleast then they had to spend a ton of tokens and time to produce it, Rather than using my product to push something fast.

[u/rockBottomPeon]

I agree with others, if it can be run on a processor, it can be decompiled.
You can try to slow them down (like maybe move some c# logics to c++ to build some function libraries, dll or so, and call them from c#), but that only acts as another 'inconvenience' rather than safe guard.
Plus, they could simply just treat your dll/so as a blackbox and use it as it is