AI will generate millions of novel inventions overnight; patents become meaningless

AI will generate millions of novel inventions overnight; patents become meaningless | when AI can generate millions of novel inventions overnight, uh, patents really become meaningless.

when AI can generate millions of novel inventions overnight, uh, patents really become meaningless.

AI generates millions of patents/night → patents meaningless. USPTO processing trends suggest system strain but not collapse.

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