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I think that's probably expected and also not a big deal. As long as there is a human in the loop it becomes rate limited, saving people from having to look for prior art in some exabyte shit heap.


It's also rate-limited because patents cost money, go into a queue for years, and are reviewed by humans.


Registering patents cost money but producing prior art does not.




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