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Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

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A crawler claiming to belong to Roblox downloaded 1,027 files totaling 145.5GB from Open3DLab and other sites without permission.

Key points

  • •On October 15 and 16, 2026, a crawler claiming to be from Roblox crawled almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab, and SmutBase.
  • •Complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects were downloaded.
  • •The downloaded data amounted to 145.5GB, which is presumed to be for AI training purposes.
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