Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking
- On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects.
- 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.
- This post briefly describes what happened, what mitigations were taken, and what this signals for the community at large.
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- On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects.
- 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.
- This post briefly describes what happened, what mitigations were taken, and what this signals for the community at large.
Sources: Open3dlab