Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@thibaultmol @eden @Blender I have doubts about the generous heart of AI vultures. These dude's donating towards creatives / creative software without an agenda?

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@Blender i’d rather welcome ebola as a virulent patron sponsor of my bloodstream. what a horrific decision.

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@Blender

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@Blender

I know @tonroosendaal is not anymore the head of Blender. But I expect he has something to say against this.

I never expected than a LIE like this:

"Anthropic is an AI research and development company that creates reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems."

will be published on Blenders web site.

Long thread about Claude source code:

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

AI DOESN'T work. Is a con machine that enlarges inequality in the world. It's an earthquake affecting the lives of thousands of workers forced to use this stochastic parrots to produce code that doesn't work. Even their own code is sub par. Workers fired after train this failed machine.

The usage of natural resources for datacenters on strained areas, or the raise of electricity bills for the datacenters to run this monsters is well reported. Along the ill effects on health of residents of nearby datacenters.

Not to mention Anthropic is on trial for STEALING materials to training Claude.

https://m.independent.ie/business/world/anthropic-faces-trial-over-downloads-used-to-train-its-ai/a1928954643.html

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/26/bartz-v-anthropic-what-are-some-additional-takeaways-and-where-do-things-go-from-here/

EDIT: Added link with current information about the Anthropic case.

Anthropic is raising their token prices.

Idiotic employees are paying from their own pockets this tokens when the ones bought by their employeers companies (that spent thousands of euros into this fucked technology) ran out, so they can keep running prompts and not lose their jobs.

Blender users must reject this. The whole planet is at risk with the demeanors and illegalities of this AI companies.

This is like accepting money from the nazi party, the mafia, Russia, Donald Trump and Israel, all combined. 🤬🤬🤬

#b3d #ai #aislop #anthropic #fund

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@Blender I guess you do not need my recurring donation then. Just canceled my membership.

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@netopwibby @Blender

How to say you are lazy without saying it.

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@Blender honestly i don't think ai code should be anywhere near a project where performance is already a concern.

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@Blender Where are we going to be safe from the IA crap?

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@AdmiralPotato @Blender

ALL OF THIS

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@mastodonmigration @Blender Blender is completely inaccessible BTW. Too busy chasing the war money to help people with disabilities... many such cases.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

even if that's true, it's not an endorsement that the user community wants to see.

just read the room

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@Blender Nobody has been under a big enough rock to not know how their userbase would react to such an awful decision.

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@krautdragon @thibaultmol @eden @Blender

the agenda might very well just be paid advertising (which this already is - look at that terribly positive and uncritical description - right after talking about "divisive times" ffs)

I can only hope that it doesn't pay off for them and blender got a bag that warrants this blunder

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@Blender
Sind die ein bisschen doof?

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@kianga @Blender

Unsurprisingly, some have expressed a similar sentiment in a slightly more coherent and grown-up way(!)

Try this post:
https://dc801.space/@AdmiralPotato/116483214185956538

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@Blender Yikes.

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@Blender : Well, it is not good news. I hope you will not hire the Firefox CEO too......

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@Blender Oh ffs...this is why we can't have nice things

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@Blender Really? How about no?

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@Blender Anthropic is a defense contractor and works with the US Government and Palantir to do some absolutely horrific shit. Claude Code was recently used to bomb a little girl's school.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20260312035736/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/project-maven-ai-us-airstrike-iraq-anthropic-b2929138.html

That's just the tip of the ice berg. Anthropic is a really horrible company with no ethics:

• https://aidirtylist.info/entities/anthropic/1/