There's AI slop and anti-AI slop [LWN.net]

There's AI slop and anti-AI slop

Posted May 30, 2026 21:12 UTC (Sat) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: There's AI slop and anti-AI slop by dskoll
Parent article: Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents

Copyright law allows anybody to use any publicly available dataset to train models, in derogation to copyright protection. So quoting your own post:

> You may disagree with copyright law, but it is the law.

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There's AI slop and anti-AI slop

Posted May 30, 2026 21:30 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

> Copyright law allows anybody to use any publicly available dataset to train models, in derogation to copyright protection.

... in *some* jurisdictions. Not all.

There's AI slop and anti-AI slop

Posted May 30, 2026 21:47 UTC (Sat) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

Sure, the European Union is ahead of the curve. Seems unlikely others won't catch up at some point in the near future.

There's AI slop and anti-AI slop

Posted May 30, 2026 22:20 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

My understanding is that this exception only applies to sui generis EU database protection, not to plain old copyright per se. Since database protection is specific to the EU, only the EU needed to add an exception.

There's AI slop and anti-AI slop

Posted May 31, 2026 8:33 UTC (Sun) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

No, it applies to any training datasets, and the AI directive specifically references it for training LLMs