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Roblox accused of scraping 145GB of 3D assets for AI training

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Open3DLab has accused Roblox of scraping 145GB of 3D assets from its website and sister sites for AI training purposes. A crawler, identified by a user agent linked to Roblox's 3D foundation model research, reportedly ignored site rules and creator licenses to download over 1,000 files. While Open3DLab believes the data was intended for AI training, it also noted that adult content was inadvertently collected, though it does not believe Roblox intentionally targeted such material. AI

IMPACT Raises concerns about data scraping practices and ethical considerations in AI training data acquisition.

RANK_REASON Accusation of unauthorized data scraping for AI training by a platform, rather than a direct model release or research paper.

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Roblox accused of scraping 145GB of 3D assets for AI training

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Ben Stockton ·

    Open3DLab accuses Roblox of downloading 145GB of 3D assets for AI training purposes

    Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly claimed that a web crawler, attributed to Roblox, downloaded 145.5GB of its data, for what it assumes is for AI training purposes.

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