Cherubin0 t1_j8dbny1 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 1:50 PM

Reply to comment by cantfindaname2take in [D] Can Google sue OpenAI for using the Transformer in their products? by t0t0t4t4

Or they should not do r&d if they cannot accept others people's human rights to use their brains whatever they like. This is like saying a thief had so much effort he should be allowed to keep the stolen good

cantfindaname2take t1_j8e4x9q wrote on February 13, 2023 at 5:20 PM

No, it's not like that at all. IMO that analogy does not make any sense. First, r&d is not just thinking up stuff and then making them. In drug discovery it involves expensive trials. In other fields it may involve a lot of building and scraping things, sometimes from expensive material. Patent should be an incentive to do all that knowing that once that it's done it can monetized in a way that does not allow other companies just to copy and paste without effort. Should they be able to do it for everything and forever? Probably not and that is what I was referring to.