Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive's vast collection of web pages.
It is imperative that this resource be saved — The short-sightedness of media saying their reticence to allow/support the Internet Archive is their fear of “AI” scraping would be funny if this wasn't so dire — Like, are you familiar w literally everything now? This is not th…
With many newspapers closed & no clear path for local public libraries to preserve digital-only reporting, the work of safeguarding journalism's record increasingly falls to — @archive.org - and their ability to preserve knowledge for the public good is under attack — www.wir…