Seeing as OpenAI is on the back foot, I hope nationalistic politicians don’t use this opportunity to strengthen patent laws.

If one could effectively patent software inventions, this would kill many industries, from video games (that all have mechanics of other games in them) to computing in general (fast algorithms, etc). Let’s hope no one gets ideas like that…

Granted, it would be ineffective in competing against China’s tech industry. But less effective laws have been lobbied through in the past.