More than 245 major news organizations around the world, including The New York Times and The Guardian, have launched bots for the Internet Archive to prevent their data from being misused by artificial intelligence. The move comes after tech companies began using years of archived articles to train artificial intelligence without permission or payment. Newspapers and magazines see this as a violation of copyright, as the artificial intelligence is competing with ready-made publications on the basis of this data. At the same time, experts warn that these restrictions could lead to the erasure of digital history and make it difficult to monitor the alteration of original articles. Media organizations and archival services are currently seeking a middle ground between preserving historical heritage and protecting intellectual property.
