In a world with actually good engineering AI you might vibe design/patent/manufacture your sofa bunk bed idea. But if it is cheaper to make a fake version and one gets monetary/institutional reward for it, we should predict far more such slop.
Anders Sandberg@anderssandbergAI generated patents were predicted years ago by my colleague Roland Orre, who suggested using AI as an invention machine. We might be getting closer to his idea ("vibe patenting"?) but what we missed was slop fake patenting due to Goodhart.
The weird thing happens when the fakery and real becomes comparably cheap. I recent asked for a parody, and as a side effect I got a theorem I might actually use.
Anders Sandberg@anderssandbergIn a world with actually good engineering AI you might vibe design/patent/manufacture your sofa bunk bed idea. But if it is cheaper to make a fake version and one gets monetary/institutional reward for it, we should predict far more such slop.