Are beta readers trustable?

A feature on asianfanfics is called beta readers and what it is, is that someone random i think reads your story and give you there feedback positive or negative and sees what you need to work on, now at first i liked this idea i have alot of stories that i haven't posted yet and that have 1 or 3 chapter's done already but then something came over that urked me alot. Can they copy what you write? Or aleast take the idea and rearrange it to make it sound like they made it up. I don't know if that makes sense but you get the idea, stealing people's stories, since i have alot of unpublished stories ill get scared if someome random reads it and thinks huh this is a good idea let me take it and change the title and the characters! Am i making a big deal out this? And am the only one to think this? Probably

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Alex-su
#1
Beta readers have been around basically forever. They proofread your stories essentially. I doubt they'd steal it, though it's probably happened to someone at some point. I just think it's highly unlikely. I don't personally have one--I have Google read my stuff back to me--but having one is nice if English isn't your first language, etc.
yeomra
#2
I thought we've had beta readers for a long time now, since I've been on AFF since 2011 and beta readers have existed since then