Itch.io adding Generative AI disclosure filtering to few more places on the site
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The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
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The New York Times and other publishers are suing Brave Software, alleging that the company unlawfully copied their journalism and made it available to AI companies. The complaint, brought by publishers including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel, says Brave sells paid access to its index of websites, which contains real-time online content. AI firms allegedly use that material to train models or answer users’ questions. The publishers name Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere among companies that received copyrighted content through the index.
The lawsuit also targets Brave’s browser feature for bypassing publisher paywalls. The publishers say Brave promotes access to hundreds of outlets without permission, takes steps to prevent sites from blocking its access, and has neither compensated publishers nor obtained consent to copy and distribute their work. The Times says it sued after Brave ignored requests to stop, framing the case as a matter of accountability for using journalism to support its products and supply major AI firms. Brave and several named AI companies had not responded to comment requests. Perplexity’s communications chief rejected the complaint, mocking the Times’ spending on lawyers and alleging that journalists could have spotted inaccuracies in the filing.
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