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Writing·semanticscholar.org

Semantic Scholar AI

AI-powered academic search engine by Allen Institute.

Risk Score
Medium
4/10

Independent assessment across data handling, compliance, security and transparency.

Risk factors

3
  • Cloud-based tool that may share user data.
  • Aggregates user search data for improving results.
  • No clear opt-out for training on user data.

Recommendations

3
  • Review content ownership policies
  • Use plagiarism detection alongside
  • Avoid inputting confidential information

Data handling

Storage
US cloud
Retention
Public research data
Training on inputs
Trained on public papers