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,

The Wayback Machine will now only be able to scrape data from Reddit's homepage, according to The Verge, while access to user profiles, comments, and post detail pages will be blocked.

Reddit has announced to block the Internet Archive from indexing popular Reddit threads to prevent artificial intelligence firms from scrapping the content for training purposes. According

As reported by Engadget, Reddit has placed restrictions on the Wayback Machine’s ability to scrape the websites. Now, the archival tool will only be able to access Reddit’s frontpage and can no longer crawl comments, sub-Reddit pages, posts, profiles and any other data the company holds.

Reddit has recently blocked The Internet Archive from archiving forum posts, replies, and personal profiles on their site. Will other social media platforms follow suit?

The social media platform claims it's to protect users' privacy, but money appears to be the more motivating factor.

Reddit (RDDT) has beef with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a source that allows users to visit archived and historical versions of websites from across the internet. The social media platform has blocked the Wayback Machine from archiving its website,

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the most valuable free services available on the web, ensuring that