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Listing out inventors is not about protecting the rights of humans but giving proper attribution to the works. The owner (person or corp) gets protection. AI is attributed as contributor or inventor.

With that said, AI contribution should always be disclosed in every medium that it participated in, including patents.

by kube-system1 hours ago|

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> Listing out inventors is not about protecting the rights of humans but giving proper attribution to the works.

This sentence contradicts itself. The reason we attribute inventors is because we recognize it as a legal right. Patents exist to give humans, whether working individually or in a group, an exclusive right to that invention for a period of time, as a legal protection for the activity of inventing.

My math teacher made me say whether or not I used a calculator. But that's not a requirement for patents.

You don't need to say what tools you used, even if you used a really big calculator.

Also, calculators don't anthropomorphize into inventors when they get really big. Inventing is, by definition, only something humans can do. Even other living creatures cannot be inventors.

by nashashmi6 minutes ago|

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by ThrustVectoring1 hours ago|

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Even if you were to extend rights to non-human entities, there's still a practical matter in that the legal system does not know how to compel testimony from an LLM (or a monkey for that matter, for a past attempt at copyrighting a photograph taken by a non-human primate)

by kube-system1 hours ago|

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And the entire point of a patent is to allow an inventor to profit from their invention for a fixed period of time to encourage inventors to invent things.

This makes no sense when applied to a box of numbers. Numbers cannot have money, numbers are not motivated to make money, numbers cannot do anything on their own.

This isn't real-life sesame street where today's episode was brought to us by a walking and talking number 7.