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The Internet Archive just got caught in the AI crossfire – then the damage started spreading

The Internet Archive is facing a new kind of threat as websites start blocking it in response to AI companies scraping the ...

Is the Dead Internet Theory Coming True? New Stanford Research Calculates Exactly How Far We Are—and It’s Alarming

The study’s findings corroborate other data, including Cloudflare’s report that nearly a third of all internet traffic over ...
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News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

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

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...
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News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

In efforts to block AI companies' web crawlers, publishers are also not allowing Wayback Machine to take snapshots of their ...

The Wayback Machine faces another threat from AI — ridiculously expensive hard drive prices

This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis.