The court filing is linked in the first paragraph and worth a read. The article is a bit vague because the claims in the filing are pretty sweeping, but to list some highlights:

• Brave started selling copyrighted scraped articles in bulk from their search index to AI companies
• Brave built explicit and targeted functionality into their browser to circumvent newspaper paywalls
• Brave repeats long, verbatim sections of NYT & other papers’ material on request through their AI web search feature

I’m neither an attorney nor a huge fan of IP rights writ large, but in my reading, the newspapers are making a pretty strong case that Brave is consciously stealing and reselling copyrighted material in unaltered form for monetary gain.

The newspapers said in the complaints, opens new tab ​that Brave illegally sells their content to AI companies including ​Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI — which are not defendants in the ⁠cases — in addition to infringing their copyrights by allowing users to ​access their articles for free

The outlets' lawsuits ​filed on ⁠Monday said that Brave "acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI 'fence' that ​sells stolen content to third parties"

everything gets scraped and AI is just the next development in this decades long saga -- it would be weird if brave didn't do this.