There is so much scam assets as well as an inhuman amount of AI generated assets (which doesn’t have the CreatedWithAI tag) being sold in the store by many creators.
It can be very helpful for everyone to have the option to completely remove specific creators from their personal Fab search.
It’s a deeply concerning and growing problem, and I know the Fab team will have a hard time squashing such cases because of manpower and lack of a barrier to entry. It’s going to be super helpful for everyone to get a block feature to somewhat mitigate this problem to an extent.
An example being sellers like these. For disclaimer, I do not know how to prove these seller are selling AI generated music, but the sheer frequency and volume of assets being uploaded everyday points to it being someone gaming the market using AI generated assets without explicitly stating it as being AI generated.
Not just that, both accounts might be from the same person selling the same things. Even the thumbnails are the exact same, only thing different being the prices. Examples being -
I’d also like to show support for the ability to blacklist/filter out certain creators. AI slop is definitely an issue, but there’s also some very low-effort amaturish assets that I’ve come across as well.
I think a good solution would be a maximum of 4 products released a week from a single seller. I say 4 so people who make lite and pro versions can do 2 products a week if they want.
I also would like to see this feature. There are a few creators that are flooding the market with clearly ripped assets. If Epic will not moderate this storefront, I want to have the ability to at least do it myself. Here is an example of a user that is ripping assets: Fab
Finally, we can block a specific creator in the search. I tried to do it like for a web search: you put the minus sign before the name.
Right now, Linder Germain is invading the site, so in the search I typed -Linder Germain and it disappears from the search list for 3D.
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I would like to add that this seller deliberately forgets to mention that an AI did the job for 1.4k items. 1.4k false declarations and this seller is still there, he has produced 20k items in total. in a few months…
This is not just the matter of being scam. Sometime it is necessary to remove some creators (block) when you see their asset on top and it is just plain low quality and you fell in their trap and purchased their asset, later realizing its plain crap doesn’t even worth 1/4 of the price you paid.
It has happened to me at least twice that I purchased something, a few months later I wanted to use it and noticed it doesn’t even have animations, even though they were showing animations in their intro video in youtube. or they have put items in their screenshots that do not exist in their assets and did not even bother to mention that specific asset is not included.
Totally agree, scam and untagged AI packs are a pain. Let’s add a simple “block creator” button next to their name that hides all their assets. You can unblock them in your settings anytime. If lots of people block the same creator, we flag them for review. Sound good?
Yes, sounds good.
I would appreciate a voting system for assets, like on Reddit, Stack Overflow, Imgur. Even if it does not affect the listing. Just to see the public opinion of an asset. It would help quickly identify ripped, AI-generated or broken assets.
Hi @codehawk64 — you’ve hit the nail on the head: every time a scam or untagged AI-generated asset sneaks into your project, it’s a tiny betrayal of your creative flow and deadlines. Think about it: one rogue asset can trigger crashes, corrupt references, and waste hours of debugging—taxing your working memory and dopamine reward circuitry as you chase down “who did this?”
On our own Unreal teams, we watched “harmless” marketplace imports balloon into major distractions. That friction compounds: once you start second-guessing every prop, you lose focus on real game design. That’s classic cognitive load overload—and it kills creativity.
Here’s how Asset Optics solves it:
Creator Blocklist – Leverage our new custom metadata field to blacklist any author ID or tag you distrust.
Automatic Filtering – Blocked assets never show up in your Content Browser unless you explicitly unhide them. No more accidental imports or context-switching.
Shared Blocklists – Export your blocklist as a JSON share-file so your whole team automatically rejects the same bad actors.
By plugging this into your Unreal workflow, you offload that nagging “did I miss a scam asset?” thought, freeing up neural bandwidth for real development. Plus, you edge out future losses: no more firefights to undo broken AI meshes or untagged packs.
Let us know if you’d like a quick walkthrough of the blocklist setup—we built it after losing days to bad imports, so we know exactly how painful it can be!
I often just give up on entire categories of Fab because the top 7000 assets are one guy’s AI slop. If there were a block feature, I could just click that and get on with shopping but as it is I just try to find what I’m looking for on another site and import it manually.
Think about it: one rogue asset can trigger crashes, corrupt references, and waste hours of debugging—taxing your working memory and dopamine reward circuitry as you chase down “who did this?”