NYT and other publishers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywall bypass
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The New York Times and other publishers have filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging it scraped their content to train AI and let users bypass paywalls.
According to a complaint by the companies behind the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave sells paid access to its index of scraped websites to AI companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and never paid the publishers. The complaint says Brave has provided "stolen copyrighted content" to "many" AI companies. Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, SpaceXSI and Cohere did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The allegations are the publishers' claims and have not been tested in court.
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AIThe New York Times and other publishers have filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging it scraped their content to train AI and let users bypass paywalls. The complaint says Brave sells access to its index to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere, and never paid publishers. Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, SpaceXSI, and Cohere did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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