Electronic Frontier Foundation3d ago
Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine 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—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

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The archive's non-profit "scraping" preserves history, a social good.

Scraping for gen/LLM "training", for profit, results in social harm and that is the difference. Preservation vs. appropriation for profit.

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Show threadJuho Mäntysalo3d ago

@kitkat_blue @eff

The base problem is how to allow The Archive access without AI companies also using it, while making sure that the version archived isn't different to that shown to public.