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US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents::The US Patent and Trademark Office maintains that only natural humans can get patents, but people do have to disclose if they used AI for the invention.
It’s already pointless to file a patent as an individual, except for brownie points for investors. You have to be able to defend it in court.
There’s IP lawyers that do contingency work on patent enforcement for this reason.