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  1. Centre de Recherche en Économie et de Statistiques (CREST), CNRS, École polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

    Étienne Ollion, Rubing Shen & Arnault Chatelain

  2. Médialab, Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Rubing Shen

  3. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University/ICS, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ana Macanovic

  4. Centre for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ana Macanovic

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Ollion, É., Shen, R., Macanovic, A. et al. The dangers of using proprietary LLMs for research. Nat Mach Intell 6, 4–5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00783-6

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