Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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@Blender It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
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@fsiddi
Q1: Of all of the previous corporate sponsors that Blender has accepted, is there one that is of the same or greater magnitude, or as controversial or socially devisive as that of Anthropic?
Q2: Are you now aware, through this onslaght of scathing comments, that this may be the most polarizing and detrimental agreement Blender has ever decided to put on paper?
Q3: And furthermore, have you weighed how much of a CEO Hero you would be if this all just 'went away' and the Blender community (both now and future) perceived you as doing the right thing and looked for more ethically and morally centered corporate sponsers?
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
Ffs stop accepting money from war criminals and from Ai slop pushers that are cranking out crap like this!! These people are making the world an objectively worse place.
Them giving you money doesn’t change that!
#blender #blender3d #ai #anthropic #aislop #unacceptable #bloodmoney
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@art_codesmith Personally I find this a difficult ethical question. The conditions under which a donation is received matter. In this case it's raising a lot of concern.
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Hi @fsiddi tbh, as long there are not some expectations from them, hope they are not buying something, than the money shall be used for good of Blender. How many functionalities / man days of developers can be achieved by this money? Are there some expectations from their side based on provided donation?
@janantos Anthropic is not buying anything, and there are no expectations attached to this. We have been putting a lot of effort in reporting development activities in our annual reports: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ - i hope this helps.
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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@fsiddi you miscalculated what partnerships the Blender community would condone, and now the project's reputation has been damaged.
1) What is your plan for rebuilding community trust in you personally, and the project's stewardship team as a whole?
2) Does the project have any guidelines for vetting donors? Are there any established criteria that would cause the project to automatically reject an offer?
3) Your were aware that the donor would be controversial. Was there any internal discussion about potentially not accepting the offer, or alternatively putting the matter to a community vote? If so, what considerations overrode these?
4) Are there any strings, explicit or implicit, on this donation? Does Anthropic get any influence that a non-donor company does not?
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Make sure to check out the full message on https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ and the funding policy at https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/ to get the complete picture.
@Blender Y'all literally built yourselves off the backs of community good faith...This is going to destroy so much faith that we (users) have in you.
Their money means nothing if they are literally eating up and spitting out slop when they generate from stolen work.
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In the communications it appear that the Blender project were aware that this would be controversial.
First, as the CEO of Blender why do you value the blood money from Anthropic more than the trust and goodwill of your users and individual supporters?
Secondly, as the CEO of Blender do you and the Blender project care about ethics and if so how is that consistent with taking blood money from Anthropic with their well documented practices?
@dahnielson I very much care about users and individual supporters.
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@Blender It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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Make sure to check out the full message on https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ and the funding policy at https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/ to get the complete picture.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
- Anthropic is a military contractor, and has been used in active military operations by Trump's Dept. of War
- Anthropic shredded millions of books! (after they'd scanned them for their own use)
- Anthropic hoovers up tons of resources, at a moment when the climate crisis looms larger than ever, and simultaneously pushes this idea that we can just throw technology at problems and they'll dissipate
- Anthropic's products are built on the destruction of the commons; stealing people's work, and then inserting themselves as new middlemen after
- Anthropic and companies like it are therefore an especially big fuck-you to anyone who has ever shared anything back with the commons - software obviously, but also music, art, writing, etc
- Anthropic is aggressively scraping everything, disrespecting robots.txt, threatening the existence of the DIY / smol / artisanal / human-made Web (and has already done great damage to it)
- Anthropic's business model is copied from OpenAI, and therefore consists of getting everyone all riled up about the inevitability of an "AI" future. This is based on ideologies in the TESCREAL bundle, which, to put it briefly, is, at its worst, an insane death cult
- Anthropic's products make people generally more dependent, more disempowered, more gullible, more distracted, and less resilient
- Anthropic, by its very existence, reinforces this notion that whenever a big (US) tech company comes along, they can just do what they want with the world, doesn't matter who or what they trample in their path
Blender is not obliged to go along with the Anthropics of the world, just because they have money! Taking a stance is an option too!
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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@amosmulder the idea is that we welcome funding towards the project, under Blender's condition. This usually has the support of the community. This case of funding is clearly extremely polarizing.
@fsiddi Thanks for the reply. Although I'm no fan of big corporations on the development fund, I get that you need funding and maybe can't be too discerning. But you make it sound like it is not a consideration AT ALL where the money is coming from?
To me (and apparently a lot of the community) this feels like a middle finger, because anthropic is polar opposite to everything I stand for as a creative (and human) and now Blender is helping them whitewash by selling them a spot on their fund.
