That's a great observation. I guess the problem here is one of enforcement- with so many patents coming in, how can you a) prove that a human didn't contribute

That's a great observation. I guess the problem here is one of enforcement- with so many patents coming in, how can you a) prove that a human didn't contribute meaningfully, an act of transcription obfuscates the origin here. b) Devote enough manpower to doing this for every patent? If the contribution is opt-in then it's marginally better, but I can see that the lion's share of patents would go to whoever has the biggest LLM, thus pushing the wealth gap larger. Patents are about novelty and effort (we want to reward the inventor), who's to say that these inventions would be novel, when anyone with a large LLM can find them?