Blocking The Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Web’s Historical Record

Blocking The Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper.  That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it accessible to the public. To that end, the organization operates the Wayback Machine, which n…