Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead,…
Reddit has announced new access limitations for the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, effectively blocking the archival service from indexing most of the platform’s content. This decision comes as the social media giant intensifies efforts to prevent unauthorized AI training data extraction through third-party services. Technical Implementation and Scope of Restrictions…