[Air-L] News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

[Tai Neilson]

Dear AoIR community,
Apologies for cross‑posting, but I wanted to share a recent article of mine in The Conversation: News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?<https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968>
It addresses the further enclosure of the internet, commodification of publishers' archives as AI training data, and the resulting challenges for nonprofits and internet research. I hope you find it useful.
Cheers,
Tai


Tai Neilson, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Media
Major Coordinator of Journalism and Nonfiction Writing
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109