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]nyt
brave-2.According to a complaint filed by the New York
Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave
Software has monetized its index of scraped websites by, in part,
providing AI companies with paid access to “real-time online
content from the Brave Index.” The AI companies then use that
index to train their models, access content to “respond to
specific user queries,” or both. Brave has allegedly provided
“stolen copyrighted content” to “many” AI companies including
Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.Brave also promotes “hundreds of top publishers” as being
accessible through its “Paywall blocker” feature in its browser.