Is Your AI Training the Competition?

is-your-ai-training-the-competition?

Is Your AI Training the Competition?

September 8, 2026

Tim Robberts/Getty Images

Summary.   

“AI Sherlocking” poses a severe strategic risk where AI platforms absorb a company’s hard-won problem-solving logic rather than just its raw

For years, corporate lawyers have obsessed over one question when it comes to AI: Is our data going into someone else’s training set? Most companies feel they’ve solved that. They’ve signed contracts saying the AI provider can’t train on the prompts their employees type in.