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.

  • BooBees@fedinsfw.app
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    The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators’ licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only. Within the sample it retrieved, it took adult projects at the same rate as everything else. Some examples include models of Eve from Stellar Blade, Mei from Overwatch, and a Horse cock dildo.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      Cause there is no cock like horse cock, send your asshole into shock; you need horse cock, of course cock, grab the lube and slam the day awaaaaay~

      E: pepper coyote played this song (and a few others) on stage at AZFC 2019, I think (maybe 2021) for all panel attendees to sing along. My straight friend was horrified, I had a blast.

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    1. Fuck roblox and everyone who allows their child onto that cesspool of a service.
    2. I can only hope they scraped NSFW content to improve their anti-adult filters/checks. Like, “Ok bot, these are porn, we dont want porn, if you find things like this and ban it you get plus 5 points”. I assume the non NSFW stuff was for noise and to throw off any sort of meta tags theyd have in common (or, to prevent DRM content)
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    I hope all these companies that are flaunting rules to steal content to train their models get crushed by lawsuits after we kick the pedo crooks out of office and get a real government working again, so long as the new government isn’t filled with people that will look the other way if they get a boatload of money from lobbyists

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    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.