Wayback Machine Director Pushes Back on AI Scraping Fears Driving Archive Blocks
3 days ago
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- Major media organizations like The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their sites due to concerns about AI scraping.
- Tech writer Mike Masnick (Techdirt) criticized this move, calling it 'a mistake we’re going to regret for generations.'
- Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, responded to these concerns, stating they are 'understandable, but unfounded' and emphasized efforts to prevent abuse.
- Graham highlights the importance of web archiving for preserving digital history and warns against limiting it.