Labs accused of monitoring user prompts to scoop scientists' breakthroughs
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-09
Advait Jayant alleges OpenAI could be watching scientists' prompts, spotting who is close to a major breakthrough, and putting its own team on the same problem using ideas from those conversations — letting it claim the result first and stay ahead of Anthropic.
Former OpenAI researcher Shenyang Zhang cuts through the drama to the unanswered core question: when the stakes are "high enough," can these labs see all your work and scoop you? No lab has answered it.
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