AI could mean the end of the Wayback Machine, as news websites are increasingly blocking it to prevent content scraping

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• A growing number of major news sites are blocking the Wayback Machine
• That reportedly includes 23 organizations that are preventing their content from appearing in the archive
• This is happening due to fears that the Wayback Machine is being exploited for AI content scraping

The Wayback Machine is under serious threat (and not for the first time), as a growing number of major news websites appear to be blocking the archiving system.