Reddit bars Internet Archive from its website, sparking access concerns

As artificial intelligence models continue to grow and develop, their demand for more and more data also increases rapidly. Now, some companies are making it tougher for AI scrapes to happen, unless companies pay a price.

Reddit has announced that it will be severely limiting the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine's access to the communication platform following its accusation that AI companies have been scraping the website for Reddit data. The platform will only be allowing the Internet Archive to save the home page of its website.