Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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@angiebaby @DBG3D @Blender Absolutely!
And y'all wonder why women avoid you.
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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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All right, Francesco here - CEO at Blender. I'm going to spend some time to try and respond. If you have direct questions or comments, reply here!
@fsiddi@mstdn.social @Blender@mastodon.social Why didn't you guys just say no? You could've done that, it's not like you have a gun to your head. You know that part of your community and your target users see these kinds of companies and their products as threats to their jobs and their creations, right?
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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/
Well fuck, I would’ve hoped better from y’all. Hope you can still turn it down
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@AnnieBuddy @Blender I guess ChildMurderer 3D is probably the natural branding choice after this.
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And y'all wonder why women avoid you.
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I definitely got some negative feedback , comparable to past corporate memberships. Which is normal, and once clarifying that this is just a donation, there was understanding.
@fsiddi so that's a no.
Actual responsibility would have looked like viewing what happened to user trust in Firefox and other open-source projects, and weighing the short term benefits vs long term consequences to what accepting a donation from Anthropic would mean.
This was incredibly shortsighted. Congratulations on ruining community goodwill toward blender. Will be interesting to see how this affects donations in the long run -- feel fairly comfortable in saying that unless Blender returns it + you resign from your post, this will absolutely tank project donations. I teach classes how to perform market analysis -- this is a stunning example of why it's critical to do so before rolling our new product features or accepting corporate sponsorship or "donations" as a nonprofit. Silver linings, I suppose. My students will have fun dissecting this one come September.
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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/
@Blender@mastodon.social dumbasses. fucking why
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@fsiddi Did Blender really think Anthropic would be welcomed by its user base?
If no, why did you accept the sponsorship?
If yes, HOW? It can't be too hard to imagine a lot of people will see this as whitewashing of an extremely polarizing company that is regarded as a threat to society and the environment by many.
@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.
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@fsiddi Wait I'm confused.
Is this a one-off donation? Because neither the Fediverse post nor the announcement on blender.org imply that.@art_codesmith This is currently a one-time donation.
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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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And y'all wonder why women avoid you.
@angiebaby @netopwibby @Blender
Don't feed the troll. Is not worthy.
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@fsiddi sure, I'll bite.
1). Did you do any market research whatsoever before deciding to tank your reputation?
2). Are you planning to use Claude to draft your resignation letter in light of how badly you screwed up? -
@Blender congrats on securing funding, I get this is important for opensource projects.
personally I don't get the outrage, Meta, Wacom, Nvidia, Microsoft, AMD, Adobe, Apple, and Netflix weren't scary enough but Anthropic does it?
how do people think opensource projects get funded@anthropy @Blender
while those companies are scummy as hell, at least they produce a product.
anthropic essentially just walks into public art exibits, takes shitty photos without asking the artist and then sells those as prints at low prices driving the original artist out of buisness.
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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/
@Blender as an artist, professional designer, someone professionally familiar with LLMs and rejecting the practices of their trainers and providers, I think especially given your user base this is an exceptionally bad decision and the signal this sends should have been considered much more carefully.
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@dianaprobst @Blender To be fair: This donation does not mean that every change of code at Blender from tomorrow on will be "in favor of Anthropic and their hunger for every bit of information on the planet." It just killed Blenders integrity for now.
But a change in update-strategy these days is adviced: Check what's being changed, what's being fixed and if you truly need the update on day one. If not, wait at least for a week or so and see what the consensus of the user-base says.
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@miss_rodent @Blender Well said. I just want to comment with all the traction this is getting, this isn’t it guys. It’s photography, it’s graphic art, it’s business, it’s jobs, it’s every nook and cranny you look and despite being told otherwise tech is bleeding people. If this gets more people thinking that’s great, because the tech has been here redifining human worth for a while now.
