@janl plot twist: Büro 99 recently switched all their communication channels over to using LLM chat bots

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Puzzled, I remember being taught that the applicant needed to maintain whatever was being patented "as a trade secret" until it was formally published by the patent office.
If it became public knowledge prior to formal publication, the patent would be invalid.

Can using GEN AI be considered as keeping it secret?

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This is how #patents work nowadays ?

Its asif being asked if you used google for research in the early 2000s or whether you visited a library..

wat

@janl FWIW, the US at least has a similar set of procedures -- the military gets to review patent applications and declare the contents secret. Back in college quite a few years ago now, one of the professors in my department had a student who needed to find a new Ph.D. thesis topic after they grabbed the old one...

@janl is there now some clue as to what it is? Also I remember reading recently about all these relatively-smart people taken in by ChatGPT and friends, asking it about physics and it hallucinating stuff such that they believed they were finding new types physics or cold fusion or whatever.

@janl Sounds "too good to be true". From a German/Swiss TV station, considered BBC-like