Reddit will prevent the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after accusing AI firms of using it to skirt platform rules. As the battle to train artificial intelligence models becomes more intense and Reddit’s rich content library becomes more valuable,

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

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's archived content.