Common crawl’s massive internet archive may be giving ai companies access to paywalled journalism, according to a new report. In recent years, however, this archive has been put to a controversial purpose 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.
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Chatgpt and other ai chatbots have figured out how to get around paywalls through live web search—and they're doing it systematically and quietly across major publications, new digital digging research reveals. 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