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Next-generation and next-to-next generation dark matter (DM) detectors will be subject to irreducible solar and atmospheric neutrino backgrounds that will challenge the identification of an actual WIMP signal. In this talk I will discuss the implications that neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) have on this background. I will show that despite the constraints to which NSI are subject they can still leave sizable imprints. They can either enhance or deplete the neutrino background, thus if present they can be discovered in next-generation experiments. Finally, I will comment on the potential experimental differentiation between general vector (of which NSI are a subset) and scalar neutrino-nucleus interactions.