A peer-reviewed study by researchers from Imperial College London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that 35% of newly published websites by mid-2025 are AI-generated or AI-assisted,…
A new analysis of 490,000 webpages from Common Crawl snapshots between January 2021 and July 2026 found that 35% of pages with post-ChatGPT publication dates show signs of AI authorship, according to …
An investigation by 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for AI training data, destroying the physical copies in the process. The operatio…
In a blog post published on August 18, 2026, author Cory Doctorow argues that expanding copyright to ban AI training will not protect artists' livelihoods from AI-driven wage erosion, asserting that p…
An incomplete list compiled by Consumer Rights Wiki identifies companies that have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with 23 major news outlets including The New York Times and USA Today…
AI companies are destroying old books to train their models, a practice that book lovers find distressing, but Google patented a non-destructive book-scanning technology in 2009 that could avoid such …
A new essay from The Walrus warns that the internet's collective memory is disappearing as AI systems degrade the web's knowledge infrastructure. The piece highlights how AI-driven search results, lin…
As of January 2026, 241 news organizations across nine countries, including the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, and The Guardian, have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, citing AI trainin…
Anthropic has been buying millions of physical books, destroying their bindings, and scanning the pages to train its large language models, according to newly unsealed court documents. The practice, k…
A viral story claiming AI company Anthropic destroyed two million rare books is misleading, according to researcher Charlie Becker, who found the books were mostly obsolete items like 1995 travel guid…
A Reddit user discovered on July 25 that a simple Google search for site:claude.ai/share returned hundreds of fully readable Claude conversations, exposing crypto wallet credentials, Social Security n…
Roku raised prices on several streaming devices by up to 60%, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming St…
Chuck Tingle hosted a comedic event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, featuring interactive games and a discussion of generative AI, where he affirmed his preference for human-made art. The ev…
Three years after ChatGPT, 35% of new websites are AI-generated, and researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found after 33 months of measurement that AI content i…
A study found that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. The research indicates that increases in AI…
A documentary short titled 'Code for the People,' directed by Bao Nguyen, explores the past, present, and contested future of the open web, highlighting the threat of closed AI and walled gardens. The…
Sudipta Das, a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor at the Internet Archive, built a client-side AI extension for the Wayback Machine. The Chrome extension uses Gemini Nano to summarize archived pag…
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is considering standards changes that would allow websites to block automated access, threatening the open web. Proposals from the AI Preferences and Web Bot…
A video of the microtonal math rock band Angine de Poitrine, wearing polka dot costumes and papier-mâché masks, garnered over 12 million views, with a top comment suggesting AI cannot match human weir…
According to a Nieman Lab report, major news publishers like *The New York Times* and *The Guardian* have begun blocking the Internet Archive over fears that AI companies might scrape its repositories…