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.

Reddit is limiting the Wayback Machine from indexing most of its site over concerns of unauthorized AI scraping.

Despite making innovations in the fields of SPAM and techno-psychosis, AI is damaging one of the internet's greatest resources.