# 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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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-ai-splooge-be-treated-the-same-as-copyrighted-materials-on-the-dope/1031830/8 "2026-07-21T17:12:30Z")

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And just a reminder, we did have a community discussion previously about how we want to handle AI content on the board:

> [@Proposed rule: cut-and-paste from AI must be in quote box](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proposed-rule-cut-and-paste-from-ai-must-be-in-quote-box/1028051):
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> Inspired by this post: It should be against the rules to post AI crap without putting it in a quote-box. There’s enough AI crap on the internet that this board should, IMO, make this minimum effort to make it easy to identify (and thus ignore, if so desired).

It’s not the exact same discussion as this one, of course, but there is quite a bit of overlap. Just in case people want to see what we talked about the last time we had a major discussion in ATMB about AI.

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