A few major publications have begun blocking the nonprofit digital library's access to their content based on concerns that AI companies' bots are using the Internet Archive's collections to indirectly scrape their articles. "The Internet Archive’s API would have been an obvious place to plug their own machines into and suck out the IP." The New York Times took a similar step. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementMany publishers have attempted to sue AI businesses for how they access content used to train large language models. The whole Nieman Lab story is well worth a read for anyone who has been following any of these creative industries’ responses to artificial intelligence.