Cool. I just dropped the following prompt on the Claude iPhone app and got a nice report out of it:
Look at the part of the website at my first link, that describes how to do an audit using their guidelines, then after that, run such an audit on my website at the second link.
Such a long article on sleep issues, anxiety, other issues, and not one mention of caffeine? I hope you have tried 6 months with 0 caffeine. Many people have the level of troubles you had, from just one or two cups of coffee a day.
If a competitor to your business discovers that you used a free online AI to help draft your patent 1.5 years ago, that competitor could then cause your patent to be invalidated, which could be greatly to their benefit of course.
The Terms of Service (ToS) for Open/Public AI (e.g., free consumer versions of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) often reserve the right to store your prompts and use them to train and refine the model.
Doing an enabling disclosure of your patent draft to another party that is not bound by a non-disclosure agreement is a big mistake, at least while the case law has not yet been settled.
My post was meant to be encouraging to people that might be considering local LLM for this specific use case, where protecting confidential information is of particular importance.
People do use SOTA LLM’s for other things besides computer programming.
For instance, if you are an independent inventor trying to write a patent while keeping your patent lawyer expenses to a minimum, you want to write as much of the first draft(s) of the patent as possible yourself. (You’ll save billable hours with your patent lawyer, and you’ll end up with a better patent because you’ll communicate your innovations more clearly to your lawyer.)
However, and this is the big thing, you absolutely do not want to be asking a SOTA LLM for help with the language in your patent application. This is because describing your invention to a web based LLM could be considered a public “disclosure” of your invention, which, (after a one year grace period goes by), could put your invention in the public domain, basically… and thereby prevent you (or anyone else) from being able to ever patent the invention. Plus, you know, a random unscrupulous employee at the SOTA company could be reviewing logs and notice your great idea, and file a patent on it before you do. Remember, the United States patent office went to “first inventor to file” in 2013.
Oh and don’t take legal advice from random people on the internet by the way.
Yeah no kidding. For instance, if you are an independent inventor trying to write a patent while keeping your patent lawyer expenses to a minimum, you want to write as much of the first draft(s) of the patent as you can yourself. (You’ll save billable hours with your patent lawyer, and you’ll end up with a better patent because you’ll communicate your innovations more clearly to your lawyer.)
However, and this is the big thing, you absolutely do not want to be asking a SOTA LLM for help with the language in your patent application. This is because describing your invention to a web based LLM could be considered a public “disclosure” of your invention, which, (after a one year grace period goes by), could put your invention in the public domain, basically—and thereby prevent you (or anyone else) from being able to ever patent the invention. Plus, you know, a random unscrupulous employer at the SOTA company could be reviewing logs and notice your great idea, and file a patent on it before you do, and remember, the United States patent office went to “first to file” in 2013.
Oh and don’t take legal advice from random people in the internet by the way.
As a guy paying $20 a month to Anthropic and OpenAI, my take-home message to myself about this is, “get busy with learning and doing this stuff!”
It’s like a $50 off coupon for Harbor Freight, only instead of it being a good thing that can only be used for one purchase, it is a life changing thing that will only be available (at almost-free prices) for 3 to 5 years.
I’m sorry, could you repeat that? I got distracted by the large animal with the tusk, over by the kitchen door.
Try zero caffeine for a while. It will not be easy, for the majority of people. After 3 months the worst of it will be over, and most people are withdrawal symptom free by 6 months.
Somebody make a keyboard where every key is a molly guard, where only one will open at a time, then make a fun video about it. And credit me for this stupid idea. Even though it wasn’t my idea.
When Typora has an iPhone client as good as their other clients, I’ll give up using a mix of Typora and Obsidian and just do all Typora. Neither of them seem to do everything I need. I hope MS does Notepad right, that could be useful.