The patent system is barely useful at this point because of the low friction - giant companies spamming the patent office with concepts they may or may not ever

The patent system is barely useful at this point because of the low friction - giant companies spamming the patent office with concepts they may or may not ever use. I think this rule is about keeping the patent office/system hobbling along. To allow the friction to drop even further for companies with the resources to generate patents via AI means that the abuse will escalate, and the patent office will struggle harder. Those companies would also be afforded a big legal advantage by this abuse, in a way certainly not predicted or intended by designers of the patent system.