Comment by grim_io
7 hours ago
That's not how I understand it.
AI is a tool, like your keyboard or your code editor.
Those can't own patents. That doesn't mean anything produced by those tools is public domain, it just means the attribution has to belong to a human.
The US Copyright Office disagrees. No work produced by a mechanical process, which includes LLMs, can be protected by copyright.
>>That doesn't mean anything produced by those tools is public domain
They can't produce anything on their own. They have to be prompted which is initiated by humans at this point, so the patents can be owned by the initiator(human) not the tool.
Exactly, like any AI tool ever.
Someone wrote some instructions. No agent harness ever simply decided to pursue its own interests.
How will you know when that happens? Or are you defining interests so narrowly that it's definitionally impossible?
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