cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58589779

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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[–] 5 points 3 days ago

Cory Doctorow has made this same argument and advocated for better labor rights as a real way to address creators’ needs.

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