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This is a natural response to AI companies plundering the web to enrich themselves and provide no benefit to the sites being scraped.


Seems more like an easy excuse to shut down a means for people to bypass their paywalls. It would be trivial for AI companies to continue getting this data without using the Internet Archive.


I imagine that's a consideration, but there's plenty of pushback against AI companies scraping outside of this.




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