News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

The Internet Archive has often been a valuable resource for journalists, from it's finding records of deleted tweets or ...