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That's why I said you tune patents to accomplish your economic goal (we could of course also fund academic research more).

e.g. with a 3 year patent period, something like GPT-4 would lose its protection now, which would be economically meaningless since SOTA models or even open models are far more capable and/or efficient. This could be tuned to the industry to reflect investment ROI. It gives some first mover advantage while allowing technology to still proliferate within a reasonable time frame.