Roblox downloaded 145GB of models without permission
The gist
A crawler identifying as Roblox downloaded 145.5 GB from 712 projects on three 3D model sites.
Roblox has not confirmed the crawler was its own.
How it unfolded
- Mar 2025Roblox introduces Cube, its core generative AI system for 3D and 4D; its first shape model was trained on roughly 1.5 million 3D assets from licensed and public datasets and opted-in Creator Store assets.
- Feb 2026Roblox begins rolling out "4D generation" built on Cube.
- Oct 15, 2026 -16, 2026A crawler identifying itself as Roblox walks almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, downloading 1,027 files from 712 projects, 145.5 GB in all, across 26,429 requests over 34 hours.