Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender wow, tone deaf move

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@Blender no, please, no...

[niwlcraft@mastodon.art]

@Blender no

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@Blender Big yikes. Huge, even

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@Blender Are you... are you serious? I know you guys need money, but...

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@Blender filthy money

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@Blender

Blender Slop

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@Blender It looks bad even if it isn't...
Donations from such sponsors would probably be best put into a rainy day fund to insure against such sponsors threatening withdrawal of funding at a future date.

[aks@scalie.zone]

@Blender bruh

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@Blender

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@Blender not you…

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@Blender no.

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@Blender Guess I'm sticking on an old version until someone forks the project, then.
An art tool accepting development funding from one of the biggest plagiarism-as-a-service companies, really? Fire whoever approved this.

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@Blender “Oh my god. What have they done?” - Valery Legasov, HBO’s “Chernobyl”

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@Blender ye..
how about no.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@Blender this feels problematic at best

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@Blender
I hope someone from Blender reads these comments and realizes that they have fucked up.

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@Blender
Why have you sold out?

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@Blender holy shit, no

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@Blender most of your userbase do not…