Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Claude is not trusted by millions of users. Nobody trusts Claude. The people who use it just don't care

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@Blender #enshittification I strongly believe you didn’t think that decision through.

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@bytebro @kianga @Blender I like your take better...

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@fsiddi @art_codesmith
Surely you people know as well as anyone that it is never 'just a donation' if comes from a company. You can't be that naive?

In this case it smells a lot like Blender is being used to whitewash the image of Anthropic as an unethical stealing slop-machine.

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@Blender This fucking sucks.

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@Blender

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@Blender Read the room, nobody wants this.

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@Blender Oh no. Blunder, more like.

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@Blender

Highly educated idiots.

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@Blender well that went well.

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Blender Foundation’s mission remains to empower artists with free/open source technology and tools.

Nothing is as empowering for artist quite like being happy to get a donation from a company that specialise in Generated AI and is infamous for stealing peoples' art and their work.

@Blender@mastodon.social

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@Blender No thanks!

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@Blender Tangent Animation alum here. I have no problem with this, the AIbros have all the money and you need as much money as you can get, and I do believe your lawyers are smart enough to make sure they can't use this to lever in some slop.

Hell, maybe they could even help you train up a tight, local LLM that could act as a built-in natural language tutor that knows the entire data structure. Be the first 3D app that teaches itself to the user on modest hardware.

I am a despiser of these hucksters, but take that money and use it well.

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@Blender boooo

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@Blender I'm angry at what you are doing.

I do not care if your announcement post of your shitty decision is tone-deaf or a perfect PR move. It does not change that you are doing something truly, deeply shitty, and no amount of fancy rhetoric will change my mind.

Change your behaviour, not your wording.

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@Blender so sorry to hear about the collapse of this project. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours.

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@Blender are you out of your fucking mind?

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@fsiddi @art_codesmith this is intense for a reason. You took money from a company that helped kill over a hundred children 2 months ago.

Killed. Children.

And you took their money.

And now you wonder why people are telling you to fuck off…

Blender is now associated with war crimes. I hope accepting the donation was worth it.

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@Blender RIP Blender, been nice knowing you

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@Blender
Oh my God, no.