US EditionNews Sites Are Locking Out the Internet Archive to Stop AI Crawling. Is the 'Open Web' Closing?
Publishers block Internet Archive to prevent AI scraping and paywall bypassing, aiming to monetize content with tech firms; NewsCorp's deal with OpenAI exceeds $250 million.
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News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?
Tai Neilson, Macquarie University Screenshot: DIWWhen 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. The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the ar…
Because they no longer want to be scanned and sucked into artificial intelligence engines, many sites are now refusing the Internet Archive robots, which are still carrying out indispensable work to safeguard the global web.
News Sites Are Locking Out The Internet Archive To Stop AI Crawling. Is The ‘open Web’ Closing? - Stuff South Africa
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. The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages. Major publishers –…
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