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

If you have ever relied on the Wayback Machine to dig up an old Reddit post or see a thread that has since vanished, that window is about to close. Reddit

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.