[cmiles8]

I think we’re saying the same thing. If you’re using AI as a tool to support human creative content that’s one thing. But what courts are pushing back on is trying to patent/protect content where the core creator was AI. That’s what most people mean when they say “AI slop.” There courts are consistently saying you can’t protect this.

[Robotbeat]

No. The court is saying you cannot assign IP rights to an AI, as this guy was trying to do. They are not saying it cannot be protected (as /r/antiai folk are always claiming). That’s another thing.

[cmiles8]

If you can’t protect it as copyright (which the US and others have separately said) then how are you “protecting” it? It’s not IP.

[Robotbeat]

That isn’t precisely what was decided in those cases, either (even though this gets repeated constantly on the internet as if it was). Again, the fundamental point of this case (and some similar cases) is just that you cannot assign IP to an AI. It has to be assigned to a person.

[dcrazy]

The ruling does not say whether or not the invention would be patentable had the appellant put his own name on the application.

[otterley]

If a person lists himself as the author but an LLM produces the work, they’re defrauding the government, which is a crime.

[dcrazy]

Er, no.

[otterley]

Oh? Why not?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001

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You can't assign the copyright to Emacs either, yet it can be used to produce software.