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Trademarks don't, patents do. Different kind of creativity but still.

• eru 7mo ago
  Patents do to a small extent, maybe. But eg medical patents are a lot about protecting all the 'sweat' you put in, not so much the creativity.
  • bandrami 7mo ago
    You don't need a realization to receive a patent, just the drawing.
    • eru 7mo ago
      I'm not quite so sure for medical patents. I mean, why are patent trolls not getting patents for all compounds under the sun for all conceivable medical uses?
• bandrami 7mo ago
  "What happens when an LLM outputs a patented algorithm?" remains a huge land mine out there, particularly since patent infringement does not require intent or even knowledge, and these models have trained on every patent ever granted.
  • eru 7mo ago
    If you can prove that your LLM did not learn from the patent (eg cut-off for learning was before), then the LLM outputting the algorithm (or product etc) would be pretty good evidence that a practitioner of ordinary competence in the field, or whatever the exact legal wording is, found the whole invention to be trivial.
    • bandrami 7mo ago
      It doesn't work when that happens with humans so it absolutely wouldn't work when it happens with a machine