This isn't stealing, you are just training a model on references which isn't a copyright infringement.
Personally, it’s a relief to hear "stealing" being used in ML to describe something other than copyright infringement. It would be ironic if we Orwell’d our way out of the current mess by using the word in absurd ways.
But realistically the title is just marketing. One depressing truth about science that every researcher has to face: make your work sound interesting, or else you won’t be able to continue your work due to lack of funding.