we're burning the library of alexandria because the robots might read it
23 major news outlets, including The New York Times and USA Today, are now blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from saving copies of their articles.
They are doing this because they do not want AI companies to use the archived pages to train large language models.
This surely protects their content from scraping, it also limits public access to historical news records.
It makes it harder to track how stories change over time and preserving journalism
Apr 14, 2026 · 3:52 PM UTC
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