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.

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.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    132·
    5 hours ago

    The crawler did not respect our robots.txt

    But was still allowed to proceed. That’s like… not using the streets in a public park.

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      30 minutes ago

      The sign said do not walk on the grass!

      Robots.txt is probably worse. Not exactly law is it