Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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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@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.
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@anthropy
i myself sadly don't have spare money to give to blender
I only use it sparingly anyways but I always liked it as a posterchild for functioning opensource software.Something that wasn't perfect by any means, but an example of what can be achieved if people work for the greater good.
AI-companies aren't just another capitalist megacorp, they are fundamentaly inhuman, uncreative, and antithetical to human expression/art.
Blender as a concept is fundamentaly incompatible
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@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.
@jwcph @WeirdWriter that said, I will continue to prop up any and all FOSS projects that find some sort of compromise that doesn't involve taking bribes from technofascists. Ardour, from what I remember, gets money from charging users, while still keeping the software available for people like me who can't afford the official version with tech support. And if I ever become able to financially support the FOSS I use, Ardour is near the top of the list and Blender has been thoroughly removed.
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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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@noondlyt Blender has accepted a lot of corporate funding over the years. In the press release we try to make it clear that this donation will be used at Blender's discretion, but the origin of the donation is very much not appreciated ideed.
@fsiddi @noondlyt i believe blender should have a full ban on any genai contributions and should have an outwardly hostile stance against this technology
why? because it's abusive technology created using lots of violence with the purpose of devaluing humanity
the whole discussion of where the money came from is valid, and i also do not think accepting money from anthropic is morally okay. but at least be morally consistent in rejecting this abusive technology -
@art_codesmith This is currently a one-time donation.
One time too many! Return it and wash your hands of this filthy blood money! #blender #blender3d #anthropic #bloodmoney #ai #warcrimes
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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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@jwcph @WeirdWriter that said, I will continue to prop up any and all FOSS projects that find some sort of compromise that doesn't involve taking bribes from technofascists. Ardour, from what I remember, gets money from charging users, while still keeping the software available for people like me who can't afford the official version with tech support. And if I ever become able to financially support the FOSS I use, Ardour is near the top of the list and Blender has been thoroughly removed.
@raphaelmorgan @jwcph Yeah, I know how these people work, and I know it’s not gonna be just about the money before long. Anthropic will hold financial sponsorship like a weapon in the future so that the blender developers will be forced to add LLM features that they, or nobody else, really asked for, but Anthropic will demand it otherwise no more sponsorship
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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 It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
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@fsiddi
Q1: Of all of the previous corporate sponsors that Blender has accepted, is there one that is of the same or greater magnitude, or as controversial or socially devisive as that of Anthropic?
Q2: Are you now aware, through this onslaght of scathing comments, that this may be the most polarizing and detrimental agreement Blender has ever decided to put on paper?
Q3: And furthermore, have you weighed how much of a CEO Hero you would be if this all just 'went away' and the Blender community (both now and future) perceived you as doing the right thing and looked for more ethically and morally centered corporate sponsers?
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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/
Ffs stop accepting money from war criminals and from Ai slop pushers that are cranking out crap like this!! These people are making the world an objectively worse place.
Them giving you money doesn’t change that!
#blender #blender3d #ai #anthropic #aislop #unacceptable #bloodmoney
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@art_codesmith Personally I find this a difficult ethical question. The conditions under which a donation is received matter. In this case it's raising a lot of concern.
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Hi @fsiddi tbh, as long there are not some expectations from them, hope they are not buying something, than the money shall be used for good of Blender. How many functionalities / man days of developers can be achieved by this money? Are there some expectations from their side based on provided donation?
@janantos Anthropic is not buying anything, and there are no expectations attached to this. We have been putting a lot of effort in reporting development activities in our annual reports: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ - i hope this helps.
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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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@fsiddi you miscalculated what partnerships the Blender community would condone, and now the project's reputation has been damaged.
1) What is your plan for rebuilding community trust in you personally, and the project's stewardship team as a whole?
2) Does the project have any guidelines for vetting donors? Are there any established criteria that would cause the project to automatically reject an offer?
3) Your were aware that the donor would be controversial. Was there any internal discussion about potentially not accepting the offer, or alternatively putting the matter to a community vote? If so, what considerations overrode these?
4) Are there any strings, explicit or implicit, on this donation? Does Anthropic get any influence that a non-donor company does not?
but honestly–what the fuck? this is so incredibly tone-deaf I am in loss for words.