For more than a decade, the nonprofit common crawl has been scraping billions of webpages to build a massive archive of the internet, notes the atlantic, making it freely available for research Despite claims of compliance with publishers' requests to remove their articles, investigations reveal that many remain in the archive In recent years, however, this archive has been put to a controversial purpose
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In the process, my reporting has found, common crawl has opened a back door for ai companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites.
A nonprofit organization has been systematically supplying paywalled news articles to major ai companies for training large language models, according to an investigation published november 4, 2025, by the atlantic's alex reisner
Common crawl maintains archives containing millions of articles from major news organizations that readers typically must pay to access, enabling ai developers. The company quietly funneling paywalled articles to ai developers the atlantic / alex reisner / nov 5, 2025 “a search for nytimes.com in any crawl from 2013 through 2022 shows a ‘no captures’ result, when in fact there are articles from nytimes.com in most of these crawls. The atlantic on common crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to ai companies a brutally efficient exposé, alex reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data (via) The common crawl foundation has been scraping the internet for over a decade, creating a vast archive used by ai companies to train models, including paywalled content
