AI BriefingNews outlets are restricting Internet Archive's access to journalism
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Concerned about data scraping for AI training, news outlets are blocking Internet Archive's access.
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Major newspaper chains including McClatchy, Advance Local, and Tribune Publishing are restricting the archiving bot access of the nonprofit Internet Archive.
This move comes amid concerns that AI companies could scrape the Wayback Machine's stored content as AI model training data.
Since The New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today Co., and others began blocking access last January, the number of news sites restricting Internet Archive's access has continued to grow. It has now been confirmed that more than 340 local news outlets have taken such measures.
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