Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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@Blender@mastodon.social If you had a spine, you'd tell them to fuck off with their vibe coding crap.
@Blender@mastodon.social @seanking@woem.men
Blender already enjoys vibe coding unfortunately
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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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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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@Blender you guys... I have been financially supporting you for like 15 years, and I help run the SLC Blender User Group to promote free and open tools for everyone. Reading this breaks my heart. As an artist who's art has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, and as a coder who's code has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, this feels like a pretty hard slap in the face. Your community doesn't want you taking dirty money like this from unethical tech bros. Please reconsider.
@Blender@mastodon.social @AdmiralPotato@dc801.space
They already vibe code Blender as it is.
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@Blender@mastodon.social @kahianyaaa@eldritch.cafe
Blender already has commits "assisted" by AI, sadly.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
You were tone deaf the moment you allowed AI slop into your codebase, you cowards.
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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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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.
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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 @amosmulder it's not polarising, the community is clearly against and deeply disturbed by the decision to accept this donation for many very valid reasons. I for one don't feel comfortable using software that was developed using blood money, let-alone the other ethical, cultural, and environmental reasons this is rancid.
As this is question time: How did you not see this as an obvious attempt for Anthropic to try and rehabilitate their image through your up until now good reputation? -
@ChocoDrawing @Blender I mean, not to be rude, but have you literally ever donated to blender yourself? I'm just saying, statistically the chance is very low, and these things do need funding.
As far as I can tell by their blogpost this is just about API expansions which will be welcome for anyone who writes scripts that interact with blender.
(also just to nitpick, AFAIK was Anthropic the one who said 'no' to US defense contracts, and OpenAI jumped on that opportunity instead)
@anthropy @Blender
they said no, the system was used anyway(at least as far as i could tell from articles I found, nothing is really trustworthy these days, so take that with a grain of salt)
but even if anthropic didn't kill those kids(BIG IF, claude was still integrated into maven in 2024), they are still being sued for literally stealing everything they could get their greedy hands on.
It removes the warcrime but changes nothing about the biggest art theft in human history.
1/2
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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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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!
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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!
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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/
@Blender sucks
But let me use this thread to remind everyone that Mastodon recently accepted funding from Jeff Atwood of Stackoverflow, who happily turned over all of Stackoverflow data to the AI overlords while their developer community fumed.
Its sad but we're all complaining on a platform that's already tainted with billionaire money.
I don't write any original content here. I'm sure it will go to the AI training data mill at some point.
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@WeirdWriter @Blender - which by the way leaves us with two options: Either nobody gave a single thought to what the kind of people who use Blender would think about a move like this, or they did & said "Fuck the users, we're doing this!"...
@jwcph @WeirdWriter I hate that I can't even blame them that much if it's the latter. Don't get me wrong, it was 100% the wrong decision, but at the end of the day the devs all live under capitalism and need to put food on the table. FOSS, like all good things, often goes against its fundamental morals in order to survive in systems where people only have time to make good things if we're paid by a corporation to do it, charge people to use it, or have the financial privilege to work for free.
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I do not understand the point you are attempting to make. This is an ethical argument.
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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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but honestly–what the fuck? this is so incredibly tone-deaf I am in loss for words.