[avaer]

It should be pretty obvious any frontier AI company worth its salt will steal any and all data it can, by whatever means necessary. They've all been doing it so far. It's a tragedy of the commons.

I wouldn't even limit it to "AI research". They are looking to expand into other areas (see: OpenAI's superapp ambitions), and they will take your other business ideas, research, and code too. If they get caught they will blame it on the AI and lawyer up with more dollars than you.

I think you might be underselling the scope of the problem, and I don't think it's going to be fixed by some person deciding not to call the LLM today.