The New York Times (et al.) Sues Brave for Copyright Infringement, Selling Scraped Content to AI Companies for Model Training
Jay Peters, The Verge: The New York Times and a group of other publications have filed lawsuits against the company that makes the Brave web browser over alleged unlawful scraping to train AI and also letting users bypass their paywalls, as reported by Reuters . According to a complaint filed by the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave Software has monetized…
Jay Peters of The Verge reports that The New York Times and several other newspapers have filed lawsuits against the developers of the Brave web browser. The allegations stem from the browser allegedly scraping content from these publications without permission. According to court documents, Brave Software has been profiting from its collection of scraped material by selling access to the content to artificial intelligence companies.
These AI firms utilize the scraped data to train their models and to provide responses to user inquiries. The publishers claim that Brave has made available "real-time online content from the Brave Index" to a variety of AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Additionally, Brave promotes its "Paywall blocker" feature, which allows users to bypass paywalls for content from hundreds of publishers.
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