Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@davidrevoy
Why people always need to be pro-something or anti-something?
Is it primal instinct of belonging and classifying everyone as friend or foe?

@Blender

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@chrishuck @Blender Are we really going to throw away the best open source 3D creation software we have because Anthropic is giving them cash?

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@Blender I see you've hit the enshittification phase.

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@fsiddi Anthropic has blood on their hands and yet you gleefully accept a donation from a company that's responsible for schools getting bombed. Way to read the room, buddy.

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@winet@mastodon.ml @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @Blender@mastodon.social by your logic nobody is allowed to change their mind

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️ @Simplicator @mhoye @Blender

#Anthropic will crush the soul of #Blender.

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@Rycochet @Blender

What the C-suite has failed to understand is that on the street, nobody and I mean nobody, wants this tulip craze called "AI".

The only people who want hallucinating LLMs masquerading as AI are executives and the marketers who sell to them.

We in the creator community have had our life's work stolen, ingested and spat out as slop by these companies.

For a beloved tool of creators to blithely announce that they're bringing the assault to our desktops and isn't that great, is maddeningly obtuse and an incredible misread of your audience.

These companies are responsible for the theft of every written word and every published art in human history.

They use that theft to create child porn, targeting systems to kill children, and create a cattle pen of surveillance around everyone, and you want to invite them in to our workflow?

Yeah, that's a no from me, dawg.

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@Blender They did.

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@Blender stop taking those bastards’ money

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@wwahammy @Blender Somehow I skimmed right over the ableism in their statment. Thanks for calling it out.

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@fsiddi absolutely, thanks for your transparent reply, tbh I don’t understand the scream of some part of community. I understand there is some affection against AI and I to some degree understand why, but extreme edges of both parties (pro and anti) are making harm. Nothings black&white.

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@fsiddi If you, as the Blender foundation, stand against Anthropic and send that money back, you will be the hero project artists need right now.

Artists are your users for heavens sake. Support them! Fight for their rights! Stand against a company which is actively trying to replace them!

You have a huge opportunity here to do good, in the most public way possible. If you tell Anthropic to take the money back, you will be all over the news and trust me, not in a bad way.

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@anthropy @Blender people can be mad about several things at once and focus on the most recent bad thing before it’s cemented into place! Hope this helps!

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@Blender I guess am uninstalling Blender...

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@siwek @Blender Embracing Anthropic is unacceptable.

Is there any human in history who didn't say about his/her time that it was uncertain and difficult?

Gee, I wonder why our time is so uncertain and divisive. Answer: It's because greedy capitalists such as Anthropic are concentrating all power in the hands of a few rich men, while they devalue labor and art. And the division happens because the smarter people realize this while others who are tricked by the endless lies and propaganda do not.

Blender's take then really is something, embracing those responsible for the division and uncertainty to begin with, while using the age-old trope of "uncertain times" as their motivation and justification.

What people don't do for money. Sellouts. I'm very disappointed in Blender.

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@Blender Ethics aside, this is problematic for several reasons, among them:

1. Knowingly taking donations from an organization is implicit endorsement
2. You are legitimizing a company whose business model and MO undermines your users
3. You risk becoming financially dependent on an entity whose goals are diametrically opposed to yours

This is incredibly short sighted and doubly problematic if donations are recurring, regardless of any strings attached.

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@Blender sad

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@Blender the Python Software Foundation showed that respect of its community is more important than money.

You can do the same.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

#Blender #Blender3D #anthropic #psf

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@Blender Way to support artists. /s

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@fsiddi Hi Francesco, I would like to ask about the integration of claude with the python API. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work Is it true that Blender devs did work in this integration? Thanks for your time.