Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.

"There's no question that the general locking-down of more and more of the public web is impacting society's ability to understand what's going on in our world." ...

More than a third of new websites on the internet were created by AI, according to a paper published online by researchers from Imperial College London, Stanford University, and t ...

More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. Major ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

Several major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today’s parent company, are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from crawling their sites. Publishers ...