New York Times sues Brave browser for AI scraping and paywall bypass
Original title: The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
Publishers including The New York Times file lawsuit against Brave over scraped content shared with AI firms like Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
The New York Times and several other publications have sued Brave Software for allegedly scraping their content without permission to train AI models and for offering a paywall blocker. Brave has provided access to the scraped material to companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The publishers state Brave ignored repeated requests to stop the practice and has never compensated them.
Unconfirmed: Perplexity's statement describes the lawsuit as disinformation
- Brave shares scraped content with Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere
- Lawsuit covers New York Times, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel
- Brave promotes paywall blocker for hundreds of publishers
- Brave provides AI companies with real-time online content from its index
- Brave has never asked for publishers' permission to copy content
- Vendors
- Brave Software
- Products
- Brave web browser
- Organizations
- AnthropicPerplexityMistralxAICohere
From the original article
2 min read at theverge.com
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.
By Jay Peters · theverge.com
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