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Because no AI company has been sued yet. Without more specific legislation there is no reason for AI trainers to not pilfer everything.

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Patents are public. Ingesting and innovating on them is the intended use. If you use an LLM to then make and market something that infringes on a patent, that isn’t the LLM doing any infringing, it’s you.

But are you even aware that you're infringing a patent? Is the LLM going to helpfully flag when it responds based on a patent?

> are you even aware that you're infringing a patent?

Plenty of folks first learn they’re infringing when they get a demand letter. Unless you ask it, I’m not sure it’s on the LLM to search for prior art and patent conflicts.

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