Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender disgusting. I wouldn't touch that with a 100m pole.

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@Blender to expand a little on the wave of disappointed replies you're seeing, genAI has been a scourge within a huge range of artist communities for the past few years. on balance it has made the lives of a large % of visual artists worse, has been used as justification to pay them less or not at all - despite being trained on their work without their permission.
the boosters are loud and very well-funded. please instead listen to your community.

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@Blender Getting a lot of use out of this lately.

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@Blender

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@Blender@mastodon.social If you had a spine, you'd tell them to fuck off with their vibe coding crap.

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@Blender You understand that this sounds **very** worrying to your user base, right?

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@thibaultmol @eden @Blender and if you believe that.. I have a Nigerian Prince's money I'd like to send you...

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@Blender Some offers should better be passed on.

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@Blender that company is not trustworthy or any of the other things they got you to say about them in this post for money

something timely for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1svdm1w/psa_the_string_hermesmd_in_your_git_commit/

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@kianga @Blender

Bye-bye Blender. Fuck that Anthropic shit.

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@krautdragon @Blender Isn't that a bit close? I'd say 100 miles just to be sure.

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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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