Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@ric @Blender Honestly, at this point, can we even call it a "donation"?
Let's be honest here: Blender developers did paid work for Anthropic. For something that *only* benefits Anthropic and no one else.

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@LarsThiessen Seems so https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116484113796142877 @Blender

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@Blender No, just no. As many have said far better than I could, this is a very bad idea.

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@Blender Dear social media worker. I hope you read this. Hi, we know you're job sucks. It's what you chose to make a living with. I hope you're job isn't on the line due to some "negative" press for this @Blender company. You've found the real world in social media form. We are not what you're boss or his bosses want to know exist. Because this is a large influx of cash coming from a well known threat actor, most are happy to stop using this program. Good day Sir/Madam/LGBTQ+

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@miss_rodent Well said. @Blender

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@fsiddi @greg holy crap, I think they used this exact line of dialog in the Godzilla/Kong TV show. I'm pretty sure it went, "Apex must believe that Monarch is a company worth investing in." You're using a trope. It was obvious in that show who the bad guy is.

I'm sorry, you're a big time CEO and I'm just an artist who would like to use your software.

I would like to use that without Anthropic's money involved. I would like that without any possibility of my work, or my information like where I live and what I'm working on, being fed to this machine in which to rage against.

You're right that taking this money and having this relationship with Anthropic crossed a line.

The only solution is to admit the mistake, give back the money, sever ties, and then make a stance against the use of AI in your code as well as a commitment to data privacy.

Otherwise, everyone like me will be looking for a sensible fork or alternative.

Thanks for listening.

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@Blender Today, Blender will lose a lot of users and have several smaller sponsors pull their support.

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I'll be back tomorrow!

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@tillbtc @Blender This is the most rational response I've seen in this thread.

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@Alairthephoenix @Blender Finally some else can read the room. I feel for this contractor.

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@fsiddi

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@fsiddi the concern for me was the messaging, how much strings did they buy, how much influence did they get. When these companies come crashing down what harm does that do to blender? There is a significant supply chain risk relying upon any of them.

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@Blender lol

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@Blender Five seconds of thought might have suggested this wasn't the best move.

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@Blender sigh

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@Blender@mastodon.social

please reconsider. there are only 3 likes and there are 17 wrench reactions (a sign of disapproval on the fediverse). all other reactions are also that of disapproval. i don't think reactions federate to your instance, though. oh yeah and ai is destroying everything you stand for yadda yadda

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@Blender@mastodon.social @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

when even david revoy is against you, you know you've made a terrible mistake. or you're completely innocent, and your name is richard stallman. hard to tell.

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@Blender So what exactly is the point of Blender being free if you take money from the industry single-handedly making RAM unaffordable to the majority of users?

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@davidrevoy @Blender by your logic blender was always evil: https://fund.blender.org/. Adobe, Nvidia, meta, amd, meshy.ai, they're sponsoring blender development for a long time, but it's not an issue for you?

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@Blender

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