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Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record

Ali NematiAli Nemati7 hours ago31 sec read10 views

Major publishers like The New York Times are blocking the Internet Archive from crawling their websites, citing concerns over AI scraping copyrighted content, which risks erasing a crucial historical record of how news was originally published online. This move impacts not just AI access but also public and scholarly reliance on archived web pages for accurate historical documentation. Content creators should be aware that such actions could lead to significant gaps in the digital historical record.

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