Open3DLab accuses Roblox of downloading 145GB of 3D assets for AI training purposes
Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly warned that a web crawler, linked to the gaming platform Roblox, mapped "almost every project" on its website, along with sister sites SFMLab and SmutBase, downloading 145.5GB of data in the process. In a blog post, Open3DLab reports that "complete copies" of 1,027 files from 712 projects were sourced in the process, which it believes were taken for "AI training purposes."
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The blog post goes into the specifics of the incident, along with some changes that Open3DLab has made since to try and avoid a repeat. …
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