# Should AI splooge be treated the same as copyrighted materials on the Dope?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-ai-splooge-be-treated-the-same-as-copyrighted-materials-on-the-dope/1031830 "2026-07-21T16:26:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-ai-splooge-be-treated-the-same-as-copyrighted-materials-on-the-dope/1031830/40 "2026-07-24T23:28:01Z")

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This entire message board is human splooge.

This message board protects direct copying of someone else’s content. You can paste a little bit (fair use with attribution) but that’s it.

AI is doing the same thing. It hoovers up content, same as you would reading a book or article, and then outputs some synthesis of that.

This is EXACTLY what every person on the SDMB has ever done. Exactly what every student in school writing a paper on a topic has done for ages. Why is AI different? Because it can consume a library of books in a few seconds that is now bad? That’s just more efficient. Some people read faster than others. Are they more bad than the slow readers? Where do you draw a line?

If you catch someone copy/pasting someone else’s content let us/the world know.

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