Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites without asking
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler identifying itself as Roblox's research team downloaded 145.5 GB from 712 projects across Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, without permission and against the sites' terms and creators' licenses.
Why it ranked
No. 150 of 155 with a score of 0.55. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.92) and reader interest (0.74), lowest on practical relevance (0.50). Overclaim counted against it (0.57).
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Concrete log-based account of a crawler scraping training data from a 3D asset site, relevant to AI data sourcing and licensing. Much of the piece is opinion and advocacy, with speculative attribution and overclaiming about Roblox's intent.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A detailed first-party account of alleged large-scale AI data scraping, with logs, quantities, licenses and mitigations. It is timely and consequential, but Roblox’s identity and intended use remain unconfirmed, while later sections are strongly opinionated.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.55total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.58
- Reader interest0.74
- Audience breadth0.61
- Practical relevance0.50
- Substantiated0.70
- Technical depth0.51
- New information0.92
- Counts against: Promotional0.06
- Counts against: Overclaim0.57
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.57 | 0.45 | 0.72 | 0.58 | 0.27 | +0.24 | +0.139 |
| Reader interest | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.90 | 0.74 | 0.28 | +0.26 | +0.192 |
| Audience breadth | 0.64 | 0.50 | 0.70 | 0.61 | 0.20 | +0.13 | +0.080 |
| Practical relevance | 0.51 | 0.35 | 0.65 | 0.50 | 0.30 | +0.22 | +0.110 |
| Substantiated | 0.86 | 0.55 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.31 | +0.05 | +0.035 |
| Technical depth | 0.66 | 0.40 | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.26 | +0.05 | +0.026 |
| New information | 0.91 | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 0.04 | +0.05 | +0.046 |
| Promotional | 0.06 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.08 | −0.19 | −0.011 |
| Overclaim | 0.48 | 0.60 | 0.62 | 0.57 | 0.14 | −0.11 | −0.062 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.554 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.554 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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Elsewhere
Elsewhere: HN 8 pts, front page
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