alt Hacker News> The Financial Times, for example, blocks any bot that tries to scrape its paywalled content, including bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and the Internet Archive
But then it was not really open content anyway.
> When asked about The Guardian’s decision, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that “if publishers limit libraries, like the Internet Archive, then the public will have less access to the historical record.”
Well - we need something like wikipedia for news content. Perhaps not 100% wikipedia; instead, wikipedia to store the hard facts, with tons of verification; and a news editorial that focuses on free content but in a newspaper-style, e. g. with professional (or good) writers. I don't know how the model could work, but IF we could come up with this then newspapers who have gatewalls to information would become less relevant automatically. That way we win long-term, as the paid gatewalls aren't really part of the open web anyway.
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Wikipedia relies on the institutional structure of journalism, with newsroom independence, journalistic standards, educational system and probably a ton of other dependencies.
Journalism as an institution is under attack because the traditional source of funding - reader subscriptions to papers - no longer works.
To replicate the Wikipedia model would need to replicate the structure of Journalism for it to be reliable. Where would the funding for that come from? It's a tough situation.
> we need something like wikipedia for news content
Interesting idea. It could be something that archives first and releases at a later date, when the news aren't as much new
> it was not really open content anyway
Practically no quality journalism is.
> we need something like wikipedia for news
Wikipedia editors aren’t flying into war zones.
> a news editorial that focuses on free content but in a newspaper-style
Isn't that what state funded news outlets are?
> Well - we need something like wikipedia for news content.
The Wikipedia folks had their own Wikinews project which is essentially on hold today because maintenance in a wiki format is just too hard for that kind of uber-ephemeral content. Instead, major news with true long-term relevance just get Wikipedia articles, and the ephemera are ignored.