> Scientists working on papers will essentially not be able to trust that their work won't get out before they have published it. For a long time already the

> Scientists working on papers will essentially not be able to trust that their work won't get out before they have published it. For a long time already there's been a possibility for your work to "get out" (patented etc) before you've even finished working on it. How did Google (and other big-tech entities) get to be the most powerful bodies on Earth? When Google positioned themselves as "the search engine" they obtained more than a little digital privilege. The ability to observe everything someone is searching, over a long time period, is also the ability to anticipate their moves and intentions. That's put competitors and researchers at a huge disadvantage. Researchers and competitors signal their intentions, perhaps quite unknowingly, long before they even have a clear idea of what they're doing themselves. Of course AI only exacerbates this a million-fold. And surely what I'm saying is a decade behind the curve for anyone who is paying attention to the world. If you have a business in tech, and are therefore a direct competitor of at least one major big-tech entity, you should not be using their services. Instead think about on-prem and local compute solutions for your most sensitive work, and relay all your search out via Tor hidden services or other mixnets for maximum diffusion .