NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms
Lawsuit calls Brave "supplier, dealer, and distributor" of stolen news content.
The New York Times and a number of other news organizations have accused Brave Software of illegally circumventing paywalls and selling stolen articles to artificial intelligence firms. According to a lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court in New York, Brave is allegedly profiting from the infringement of copyright by providing stolen content to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.
The lawsuit claims that Brave has made more than $100 million by copying and reselling publishers' work without obtaining consent or permission. The AI companies reportedly pay Brave to access real-time online content from Brave's search index, which is then used to train their AI models and respond to user queries. Brave's website itself advertises that its Search API is used by prominent AI companies, including Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com.
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