”Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we’ve been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

So then go after the AI companies for violating your platform policies, not the archive. Reddit does believe in the open internet, right? You’re not just using this as an excuse to further wall off the content your users have created?