This is an absolutely wild story:
- a German inventor, unrelated to the defence industry, registers a patent
- the German military immediately classifies its contents as security related, including potentially endangering NATO’s nuclear deterrence, and forbids the inventor to discuss the patent with anyone
- a little while later, the patent office asks if he used any GenAI tooling to create the patent: he did
- the classification is immediately dropped as there is no more guarantee that those tools now keep a copy of that information, so there is nothing to be done about keeping this a secret
I don’t even know how to begin contemplating how completely bonkers this whole situation is.
