An article by Alex Ivanovs of Stack Diary brought the allegations against Brave to light.

Then why the fuck are we reading this shit article and not reading the other one? I hate modern “journalism”.

Also, from the original, non-ripped-off article (links retained):

And don’t get me wrong, I love Brave, and I’ve given them credit where it’s due; it’s also my understanding that the Brave Search API feature is new as a whole (released in May 2023), so perhaps it wasn’t or hasn’t been thought through completely.

So, whatever fear-mongering this SEJ shit article was trying to cultivate is completely absent in the original article.