The Wayback Machine faces another threat from AI — ridiculously expensive hard drive prices

• The Wayback Machine is under threat from AI once more
• The AI boom has tripled the price of the large hard disks needed for this expansive archive of the web
• This is a further danger posed to the Wayback Machine, which is also in trouble due to news sites blocking its web crawler, which is again due to AI

It's an increasingly desperate time for those trying to keep a record of the history of the web, as AI is again proving a serious stumbling block to the efforts made by the likes of the Internet Archive — and this time it's about soaring hard drive prices.

You may recall that last month, we covered another angleon the difficulties AI has been causing the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This is the non-profit organization's history of the web, and there's a problem in that, as part of measures designed to...

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