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October 13, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmScientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas? Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their modelsBy Peter Hall edited by Joseph HowlettScientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the privacy of their manuscripts in the wake of high-profile accusations that AI companies harvested uploaded documents. Who is Danny/ShutterstockRecently, controversy and accusations have followed artificial intelligence companies flexing their models’ research capabilities. When OpenAI claimed an internal model had solved one of math’s seven million-dollar problems, a mathematician at New York University insinuated that the company had stolen his progress, which he had shared with one of its chatbots. Weeks later the New York Times reported a similar story unfolding between Anthropic and a biologist at the University of Copenhagen regarding a group of enzymes. Despite this, scientists from all disciplines are opting to use these companies’ large language models.