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Does that mean I have to pay you royalties for thinking about it or mentioning it?

Yes, if HN were to post copyrighted work that only they could spread, then you would be liable. In the same trend, any patents that HN comments share should not be redistributed/sold by you.

Chatgpt circumvents copyright law in a way that is hard to detect. How many sentences of moby dick does it take to prove chatgpt is plagiarising other peoples protected works?

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That is mostly not how US copyright or patent law works. Your claim just wrong. It is legal to spread limited amounts of copyrighted material under fair use, and anyone can create and sell new content based on copyrighted material as long as it is sufficiently transformative.

It's also totally legal to print out a bunch of patents and redistribute those in a book or whatever (except on certain secret patents which aren't relevant here). You can't copyright a patent filing. The only legal restrictions are on building and selling things that infringe on patent claims.

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