Roblox says a researcher's AI agent "mistakenly scraped" Open3DLab
Open3DLab says a crawler tagged with a Roblox address took 145.5 GB of 3D models, including adult files. Roblox says the data wasn't used.
By Emerson Redding · Published
Why it matters
Roblox's answer blames an agent "failing to operate as intended," not company policy. For companies building 3D and other foundation models, it shows how one research agent can create legal and reputational risk. Roblox still hasn't said whether the files were deleted.
Roblox says one of its researchers built an AI agent that "mistakenly scraped" Open3DLab, a free 3D model site. The company says the data was not used for anything, including AI training.
“A Roblox researcher built an agent to collect publicly available 3D assets that mistakenly scraped content from Open3DLab, failing to operate as intended,” a Roblox spokesperson told RuntimeWire. The spokesperson said the agent was decommissioned and the data was not used for any purpose, including training AI models.…
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