AI scraping concerns are driving Reddit to restrict the Internet Archive to only its homepage, cutting off post and comment archives.

Reddit is restricting the Wayback Machine to archiving only its homepage, blocking access to posts, comments, and profiles to prevent AI firms from scraping data

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.