A few major publications have begun blocking the Internet Archive’s access to their content based on concerns that AI companies’ bots are using the Internet Archive’s collections to indirectly scrape their articles.
AI ruining something else? I’m shocked!
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s a good excuse, but it’s bullshit. They wanted to block IA for a long time and just taking advantage of the situation. LLM companies that scrape on mass explicitly don’t use even free APIs to avoid being rate limited.