Reddit will prevent the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after accusing AI firms of using it to skirt platform rules. As the battle to train artificial intelligence models becomes more intense and Reddit’s rich content library becomes more valuable,

Reddit has moved to restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its platform after identifying that some artificial intelligence companies have been using archived Reddit content for data scraping in ways that violate its policies.

If you have ever relied on the Wayback Machine to dig up an old Reddit post or see a thread that has since vanished, that window is about to close. Reddit