Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender jesus christ

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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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@greg Can't speak for them, but they see Blender as a project worth supporting.

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@Blender No. Locate your ethics and return the money.

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@Blender Taking money from the military contractor that’s actively destroying the careers of much of your user base by stealing their work doesn’t seem like a good way to stay popular with those users, but maybe it’s just me

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@Blender Failing to understand the problem does not do you any favors.

If you're *really* fucking confused why people don't want this shit, you could always just FUCKING ASK US.

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@Blender BOOOOO HISSSSS WHAT THE FUCK IS THISSSSS

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@Blender just another garbage company. Gfy.

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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense.

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@Blender Shameful and compromising of your reputation for short term cash.

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@Blender@mastodon.social This is going to really mess up your optics, folks.

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@Blender no, come on, there's NO WAY you don't know how terrible a move this is.

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@Blender You'll have to reword it some more because anything that starts with accepting it at all still falls under "tone-deaf."

The best I can think of as a suggestion: we were forced by tone-deaf people to accept money from a known evil corporation, but don't worry, we promise we'll try not to become evil overnight. Fork now while you still can!

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@mhoye @Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE

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@Blender Accepting money from Anthropic is accepting blood money so Anthropic can launder their image. They’re, please forgive my crassness, shitting on artists, ripping them off, and produce the artistic equivalent of toxic sludge.

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@Blender

This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"

[sternentau@don.linxx.net]

@Blender

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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.

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@fsiddi Also what does "it's a donation" even mean? Does this mean you would accept a donation from any organization, no matter how sketchy it is?

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@lumi @Blender

It's blood in soaked money.

Not just the issue of gen ai.