Semanticscholar
Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that aggregates scientific literature, providing tools for semantic analysis and enhanced reading experiences.
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
2- Low risk for corporate research use
- Avoid using personal or proprietary research topics as search queries if privacy is a concern
Data handling
- Storage
- Allen Institute for AI cloud infrastructure
- Retention
- Standard web service retention
- Training on inputs
- Search queries may inform recommendation models
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