@cwebber the US is not a country of laws, period. What USPTO says doesn't matter.

The EU however, just 3 days ago adopted text. LLM scammers MUST comply with licenses including payment to train on copyrighted work, regardless of location. And purely LLM generated slop *cannot be copyrighted*. There MUST be significant human contribution.

So purely LLM generated slop to try and license wash something is pretty much definitively unlawful now.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37511/protecting-copyrighted-work-and-the-eu-s-creative-sector-in-the-age-of-ai

@Catvalente there ought to be a named law hat says something like: you probably didn’t solve a problem in ten minutes that experts have been thinking about for years.

I guess It’s a variant of Menken’s Law (every complex problem has a simple, straightforward, incorrect solution). And it’s in the same ballpark as the Dunning-Kruger Effect (novices misunderstand how much they don’t know) and Chesterton’s Fence (do not remove a fence unless you fully understand why it was there in the first place).

But I see this particular scenario often enough that it seems like it should have its own name.