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AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
As the battle to train artificial intelligence models becomes more intense and Reddit’s rich content library becomes more valuable, the social media giant has taken steps to block the Internet Archive from indexing its pages.
While the Wayback Machine has historically recorded all Reddit pages, comments and user profiles, the company has put limits on what the system can scrape. Moving forward, it will only be permitted to archive the site’s homepage, which shows popular posts and...