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.

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[–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The opinion section is pretty interesting as I often seen people arguing over copyright and AI:

So we aren't asking for stricter copyright laws, or stronger protection for copyright holders. That will only benefit the major entertainment companies like Disney and Adobe who have already stacked the deck in their favor, and are happily making deals with Big-Tech and crushing small creators in the process. We're pointing out that the copyright we have isn't applied equally, and is in practice a two tier system. Individuals face ruinous damages for minor infractions. The largest companies in the world face a cost to be negotiated after the fact, if anyone can afford to sue them. A law that only works downwards gives nobody a reason to respect it, and it can't last in this form.

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    [–] 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Roblox really is the infamous orphan crushing machine huh?

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  • [–] 92 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Nah. Orphans aren't the target audience, since they have no parents to steal credit cards from.

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  • [–] 141 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    One of these things is not like the other

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  • [–] 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Uhhhh, "adult" models of "sexy" female characters from video games. Yeah.... All three of those things are like each other

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    One of them didn't specify the game in the title.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago

    Roblox not beating the pedophile platform allegations

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  • [–] 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    How to read this:

    The company Roblox decided to copy the entire database of a set of 3, mostly adult nsfw 3d model hosting websites.

    You know, Roblox, that game all the kids play.

    Yeah basically if you've ever seen 3D animated porn that wasn't made by AI, and involved a reasonably well known video game character?

    Yeah the ... video maker nearly certainly got the model from either SFMLab or SmutBase.

    The funnier part is this:

    A huge majority of these NSFW models are actually variations of models made by ... companies, that sell their models and character customization software, and have liscenses that generally permit use in something like a video clip, but almost never in an actual commercial video game, not without a subscription and agreement to liscense terms.

    So basically DAZ and Realusion and such now very likely have a lawsuit against Roblox they could choose to pursue... unless Roblox wants to maybe very rapidly pay the liscensing fees, knock out a contract agreement real quick.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago

    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

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Never heard of the site but it looks cool

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    All three sits are by the same owner but have different models open3dlab is SFW blender models, smutbase is NSFW blender models and sfmlab is both but for sfm

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I had to confirm the existence of smuttbase and SFW for scientific purposes.

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