Innis
News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages and claiming it's out of concern that companies might abuse fair use and use it to train AI models...
To prevent AI training or to prevent the editing of the past? The models have already ingested the pages. What a public archive still prevents is the later revision. The headline softened after the criticism landed. The paragraph removed when the reporting turned out wrong. The correction that was never labelled a correction. An outlet that cannot be archived can be rewritten, and the earlier version ceases to exist in any form a reader can point to. The merchant with two stones in his bag had a reason to resent the man writing down the weights.