[Air-L] News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

Dear AoIR community, Apologies for cross‑posting, but I wanted to share a recent article of mine in The Conversation: News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?<https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968> It addresses the further enclosure of the internet, commodification of publishers' archives as AI training data, and the resulting challenges for nonprofits and internet research. I hope you find it useful. Cheers, Tai Tai Neilson, PhD Senior Lecturer in Media Major Coordinator of Journalism and Nonfiction Writing MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109