I suppose it's worth distinguishing the type of machine though.
If a genetic algorithm comes up with a unique design and I patent it, that's okay, right?
I think the main issue with LLMs is what went into them. Like we saw recently with Anthropic's revolutionary source control breakthroughs, which turned out to already be in the training data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
I suppose it's worth distinguishing the type of machine though.
If a genetic algorithm comes up with a unique design and I patent it, that's okay, right?
I think the main issue with LLMs is what went into them. Like we saw recently with Anthropic's revolutionary source control breakthroughs, which turned out to already be in the training data:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694