GoKawiilOpen3DLab says Roblox-linked crawler scraped 145GB of 3D assets
Open3DLab, along with sister sites SFMLab and SmutBase, says a web crawler using a Roblox-affiliated user agent referencing 'trellis2-data-sourcing' and a Roblox email address scanned nearly its entire catalog of 18,926 projects over 34 hours, making 26,429 requests. The crawler reportedly downloaded 1,027 files from 712 projects totaling 145.5GB, including adult content from SFMLab and SmutBase, despite the sites' robots.txt rules, terms of service, and creator licenses barring scraping and commercial use.
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The incident highlights growing tension between AI developers seeking training data and independent creator communities whose content licenses explicitly forbid such use. If confirmed as tied to Roblox's AI research efforts, it could raise questions about consent, copyright, and the scraping of adult-content platforms for machine learning datasets. Open3DLab's detailed documentation may also pressure Roblox to publicly respond or clarify its data-sourcing practices.
- Open3DLab says a crawler linked to Roblox downloaded 145.5GB of 3D assets from 712 projects.
- The crawler allegedly ignored robots.txt rules, terms of service, and non-commercial creator licenses.
- Adult-content sister sites SFMLab and SmutBase were also scraped, according to Open3DLab's blog post.
Source: tomshardware.com — Ben Stockton, 2026-10-27
Published there as: “Open3DLab accuses Roblox of downloading 145GB of 3D assets for AI training purposes”
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