AI could mean the end of the Wayback Machine, as news websites are increasingly blocking it to prevent content scraping
A growing number of major news sites are blocking the Wayback MachineThat reportedly includes 23 organizations that are preventing their content from appearing in the archiveThis is happening due to fears that the Wayback Machine is being exploited for AI content scraping The Wayback Machine is under serious threat (and not for the first time), as a growing number of major news websites appear to be blocking the archiving system. If you’re not familiar with the Wayback Machine, it’s run by the non-profit Internet Archive, and is essentially a time machine that preserves a history of the web (and more besides). This can be vital when it comes to historical research, for example, or monitoring changes to websites. As Wired reports (via 9 to 5 Mac), there’s a growing trend of online news outlets blocking the web crawler that the Internet Archive uses to gather its snapshots. Some 23 big news sites are now doing so, according […]