SMRTR AIFeb 8, 2026Hacker News

News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling

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Major news publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from freely scraping their articles, preferring paid deals while creating gaps in public internet records.

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