I’m getting seriously tired of seeing obvious AI-generated models being accepted into the Exclusive Program.
The whole point of exclusivity should be to reward creators who actually spend time modelling, sculpting, testing and preparing files properly—not people uploading barely cleaned-up image-to-3D output full of broken anatomy, melted details and chaotic meshes.
I’ve attached a screenshot from one recent example where the thumb holding a hose is malformed, positioned on the wrong side and facing the wrong direction. It is an anatomically impossible hand-and-object interaction and exactly the sort of failure commonly seen in AI-generated imagery and automated image-to-3D models.
The STL itself contains more than one million triangles, non-manifold geometry, irregular automated topology and floating mesh debris. It looks like generated output that was exported and uploaded with little or no proper cleanup.
This is not an isolated example either. Another model I checked still had tripo_node written directly in the OBJ metadata, clearly identifying that it had come through the Tripo AI-generation pipeline. It had then been passed through a file-conversion service and uploaded.
What makes this even more frustrating is that I regularly report the most obvious AI-generated uploads, yet seemingly nothing happens. Reports disappear into the void while the models remain in the Exclusive Program earning rewards alongside work made by genuine creators.
To be clear, I have no issue with people publishing AI-generated models outside the Exclusive Program, provided they are honest about how they were made and follow the platform’s rules. The problem is uploading generated content into the Exclusive Program and presenting it as original creator-made work.
If you are doing that, expect your uploads to be examined, documented and reported. I will continue calling it out every time I find clear evidence.
Meanwhile, real creators are spending days or weeks designing, sculpting, test-printing, correcting tolerances and documenting their work. Allowing undeclared AI models into the Exclusive Program devalues the program, the rewards and everyone who genuinely earned their place in it.
MakerWorld needs to start enforcing its rules properly before the Exclusive Program turns into an AI content farm.
