Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@DamonWakes @Blender lmao they edited it to sound less excited

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@Blender NOPE I’M OUT. Fuck you guys. You were literally one of the most loved open source projects OF ALL TIME.

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@the_wub @Rakkom @Blender Update: sadly, they seem to be pro slop. Oh well, was worth asking.

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@ell1e @Rakkom @Blender Thank you for checking this out!

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@Blender Ah it seems that both Blender and thus Bforartists already use LLM code.

See:

https://github.com/Bforartists/Bforartists/issues/6506

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@gruni @Blender It does have a vibe of "Feed me, Seymour" when they start out fistfucking creative people, then begin running out of material to feed the content extruder and then go on to make sure the best tools are supported to keep the pipeline flowing.

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@Blender Ooooh that's a hard no.

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@Blender yo wtf

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@Blender Bad, bad move. Now I need to look for a competitor or a clean fork.

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@noondlyt @fsiddi

Wooh... so much for the no quid pro quo posturing. Breathtaking.

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@Blender This going how you thought?

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@DiogoConstantino @fsiddi

I do not understand the point you are attempting to make. This is an ethical argument.

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@Blender You might, perhaps, have noticed that you have managed to annoy quite a lot of people.

Perhaps you think this will blow over, and a week from now people will forget and you'll still have the money.

Perhaps you might be right. Perhaps.

But that money comes with a cost. A cost that your organisation has now aligned itself with a company of thieves, fascists, murderers, actively harming people and the world for greed.

You are now with them.

Think about that. See if it helps you sleep.

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@Blender

Luddites go "Waaaah!!!"

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@fsiddi @art_codesmith my 2 cents: I am having trouble seeing it as a donation. It's called Corporate Patronage in OP (completely different vibe) and comes with (good) publicity for Anthropic attached. When I donate something, I get nothing in return from the party I donate to. That's a donation in my book. What Anthropic pulls here is, in my book, transactional.

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@Blender@mastodon.social

You should be ashamed, for this and using AI in your code regardless.

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@fsiddi

Even if this is just a simple donation, it should have been clear just how devastating the damage to Blender’s reputation would be by accepting this “blood money.”

After all, we’re talking about a company that tramples on creativity and copyright, and colludes with companies that produce software to build fascist systems.

My question is, wouldn't it have been better to ask the community first whether to accept this money? A fundraising appeal stating, "We could receive $x from Anthropic - would you rather donate yourselves?" would likely have been more successful. Both financially and in terms of reputation.

Sorry, it was a horrible decision.

@art_codesmith

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@Blender@mastodon.social @seanking@woem.men

Blender already enjoys vibe coding unfortunately

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@Blender you're still accepting blood money by some people's standars. Probably a lot of people

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@Blender Do you want your software to be used in war crimes? Because this is how you get your software used in war crimes.