Reddit Blocks Wayback Machine Access Amidst AI Data Scraping Concerns

Reddit has blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content after discovering AI companies were scraping data in violation of its platform policies. Only the Reddit homepage will be indexable. This move aims to protect user privacy and prevent data misuse for AI model training. Reddit previously reached a paid data agreement with Google and sued Anthropic for unauthorized scraping. This highlights the ethical dilemmas surrounding AI data acquisition and the challenges platforms face in protecting their data.