Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab enters the wiki through News sites are blocking access to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine as Andrew Deck’s journalism publication context. In this source, its reporting links news publishers’ archive-blocking behavior to AI training-data fears and to the weakened norms around open-web crawling.

The episode uses Deck’s account to keep the claim bounded. It treats publisher concerns as credible after earlier unlicensed use of journalism by large language models, while also noting that the publishers Deck spoke with did not point to direct evidence of AI companies using the [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]] as the scraping route.

Connections

• Andrew Deck - reporter interviewed by Marketplace Tech.
• Internet Archive and [[WaybackMachine|Wayback Machine]] - subject of the reporting.
• AI Content Licensing, AI Proxy Scraping Risk, and Archive Access Tradeoff - AI and publisher-economics branch grounded by the source.