AIHackadayabout 3 hours ago
News Sites are Blocking Internet Archive over AI Scraping Fears
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News outlets like The Baltimore Banner and The Atlantic are blocking the Wayback Machine's web crawlers, citing concerns that LLM chatbots would improperly cite content. Meanwhile, paid services like ProQuest and LexisNexis remain welcome. This leaves researchers reliant on free archives with growing gaps in news coverage.
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