Researcher urges peers to disallow AI training on their data to protect discovery attribution

TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-09

X user maxspero makes a notable suggestion: if you are working on a problem you expect a frontier AI lab to solve within your lifetime, you should proactively disallow training on your data in licensing settings. The rationale is to avoid ambiguity over attribution—if a model absorbs your work and later produces discoveries, credit becomes unclear. The thread frames this as a self-protection strategy for researchers in the AI era.

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