Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

The thread spent less time on the raw 145GB figure than on the norms governing AI data collection. A sizable group rejected the idea that publicly downloadable files are automatically fair game: the site says the crawler retrieved but disregarded robots.txt, site rules, and many non-commercial creator licenses. For them, industrial-scale collection is not equivalent to an ordinary user downloading a model; it converts a community archive into unpaid corporate training or product input while potentially making such archives impossible to host openly. Others treated the complaint as overstated or internally awkward. They argued that a site hosting fan-made and sometimes questionably licensed assets has weak standing to invoke moral ownership, and that a modest public download is neither technically remarkable nor necessarily evidence of model training. Several readers also questioned the emphasis on adult assets, suggesting Roblox may have collected them to build moderation systems that identify or reject sexual content. A minority added that adult examples can improve generative models' understanding of human anatomy even when the intended output is non-explicit. The sharper criticism was directed at the broader AI-industry premise: firms present indiscriminate ingestion of others' work as progress toward AGI, while critics see a commercial extraction project with neither consent nor payment. Practical anti-scraping proposals drew skepticism because cloud blocking can exclude legitimate users and determined collectors already use residential proxies.