I also have been discussing this idea with others for some time and wonder how it can be exploited to break or improve the patent system. While some now try to patent things build by an AI, I think the other would be interesting: creating random claims using patent language and timestamp those. Combine this with some kind of similarity search to link the generated stuff as prior knowledge to any newly created patent application. Reinforce the generator by its ability to 'predict' patents. Use the argument that patent offices use to fend of ai patents against them: if a computer can generate the creative height cannot be sufficient...