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Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine


The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access.

The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit. The move is the latest step Reddit has taken on its quest to limit AI companies' ability to use its data to train large language models without paying licensing fees. It's also a notably different stance than the company took last year, when it explicitly said that it would not limit "good faith actors," including the Internet Archive.

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