Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Some of the most miserable news I've heard out of software lately.

Taking the US Military Industrial Complex's blood money is reason enough to switch tools.

Giving corporate AI slop-peddlers influence over what features the devs are to prioritize doesn't give me faith in the tool's future either.

Fucking shameful.

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@Blender

yikes

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@Blender

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@Blender Dirty money. Shame on you.

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@Blender ewww

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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.

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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?