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I don't think this is going to (or should) stop people applying for AI invented parents.
However.. I do think that the cost of applying for a patent should be a lot more to avoid spamming.
It's like the guy who wanted to use a computer to compose all possible combinations of notes in music with the purpose of copyrighting all music. I'm like.. didn't you also just break the copyright for all existing music?
Anyway, I don't mind people using computers or AI, but patent trolling and spamming shouldn't be financially feasible. Make the product first or fuck off.
The problem with making it a lot more costly results it much more difficult / impossible for a unfunded individual to file a patent vs corporations.
The USPTO already has lower fees for "micro entities" as it calls regular people and small businesses. Still too expensive for regular people and too cheap for mega corps but they do have different fee tiers.