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bsenftner • today at 11:18 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

If that data is at all important, why is is downloadable?


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jalict • today at 11:20 AM

This is quite simple put in the article.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.

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whizzter • today at 11:36 AM

It's a community site, first model I looked at (Tanya by Shrimport) is under CC-BY-ND-NC licence (Creative Commons, By attribution, No-derivatives, Non-commercial).

AI training by definition is derivative, and Roblox not using it for commercial purposes if used in production is practically nil.

This is a huge part of why AI upsets people, we can't have nice things such as communities where people are sharing 3d models without it being feeding ground for commercial companies that has little intention to ever honor any licences or compensate authors.

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