Is it legal?

I’ve noticed several weeks ago that there is a guy (probably one as the scheme is similar) that is creating automatically a flood of profiles supposedly “corrected, enchanced, optimized”. His published models are always some easy stamps etc. but the main “meat” is his published profiles on the models of other users. Sometimes he upload few profiles in the same minute. He is faking his real prints using AI (always white background, no layer lines, if there is text or pattern then it is shown skewed or with other artifacts. It’s automated. Also the profile itself is just low lvl improvements such as if the original model is 0.16mm for the quality purposes he change layer lines to 0.2, change any other setting to print faster and call it optimization. If you will report several of this profiles then the moderators will “process” such profile but they don’t watch the big picture and don’t ban entire account just the single reported profile (in the meantime the user will upload more profiles than was reported). Just like we must do all the work for moderators like they are not even thinking what they are doing. If they won’t do anything with this now there will be more copycats of such behaviour and with the increasing quality of AI photos soon you won’t recognize real print photo from the fake one.

Here are the profiles (im sure there are more just look for titles for example “optimize parameters, improve printing efficiency”):

Example:

Just look around if you could spot more profiles of such type. What do you think? In my opinion that is the middle finger to all real print profiles uploaders that are really printing the models to check the printability.

I am a victim of this/these users as well. I had mentioned in another thread about a profile that used an AI image being uploaded to one of my models. I had the profile removed only to see the exact same profile, same name, same image appear back on my model a few days later, but this time from a different user. One of those users was ‘coffee & tea’ who you have listed there.

I can add bibilaby | Home - MakerWorld to that list as well as this user yeeeep | Home - MakerWorld who is the user that currently owns the bogus profile on my model. That’s right, the exact same profile is back on my model for a third time after being removed twice.

@MakerWorld Please give us the option to prevent 3rd party profiles from being uploaded to our models. This is getting out of hand.

Right, i had the same problem. Reported some ■■■■■■■■ profile that degraded my model and called that improvements. After his profile was removed after some time another appeared with the same name but other user like in your case. I thought i had delusions :smiley:

@MakerWorld - PLEASE LET US BLOCK 3RD PARTY PROFILES