Source: Ars Technica
The Times is escalating its fight against AI training data extraction by targeting the infrastructure layer—Brave's browser—rather than just individual scrapers or AI companies. This lawsuit expands the legal battlefield beyond the obvious suspects (OpenAI, Anthropic) to the tools that enable it, signaling that publishers now view browser makers as direct complicit partners in content theft. If successful, it could force browsers to become active copyright enforcers and create pressure on other browser makers to choose sides in the creator economy wars.