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Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’
OpenAI recently said that it would use its patents only 'defensively.' But experts say that the pledge is extremely vague.
“It can be read in so many different ways, including to cover all of OpenAI’s competitors in the marketplace and parties who fairly criticize ChatGPT’s deficiencies.” OpenAI also doesn’t have much of a patent portfolio it could assert if it wanted to, he argued; its IP strategy is much more dependent on trade secrets — things like confidential training data and methods. Borella called OpenAI’s statement “public relations virtue-signaling”: an attempt to curry favor with the tech community and regulators, along the lines of Tesla’s ill-defined patent pledge in 2014.
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