For fear that the well-known archive service will be used for AI training, more and more news sites are blocking the Wayback Machine – not only in the US.
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Large news sites, including the New York Times, The Guardian and USA Today, but above all more than 340 local news media in the US, restrict access to their sites by the Internet Archive. This is due to the concern that their content could be used illegally for AI training via Internet Archives.
For fear that the well-known archive service will be used for AI training, more and more news sites are blocking the Wayback Machine – not only in the US.