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Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

eff.orgBlocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical RecordImagine 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—th...

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blocking IA from scraping news resources bc of something something AI and definitely NOT because of the growing exploitation of established media outlets by technocrats who dont want their propaganda pieces contradicted by the historical record of the outlet's previous works, yeah okay NYT