Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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All right, Francesco here - CEO at Blender. I'm going to spend some time to try and respond. If you have direct questions or comments, reply here!
@fsiddi Let’s ignore the lost trust and users in the replies here saying they’ll never use it again. Let’s also ignore the lack of clarity about any strings attached, or Blender’s ethical alignment.
How much did they give? How much in donations has been lost since the announcement? Is it going to be significantly more than people would give for this to *not* happen? Even if it was, is that worth it?
It may be too late, but I’d like to see transparency about how much was donated. Any discussions with them around the donation. A return of those funds. A clear and explicit policy about AI contributions in the codebase, ideally forbidding them (but there already are some, which calls into question code licenses and ownership). After all of the above, and if done in the right spirit to support open source and artists, and with significantly better comms, I’d like to see a donation drive with the goal of beating the anthropic contribution.
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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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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
@Blender
Really? The wording is the problem?
You already got some shitstains on that list like Facebook... oh sorry I meant mEtA. I guess dirty money can taste very good if you just look the other way. On that note, who is next? Lockheed Martin? I bet they have a lot of money to spare -
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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All right, Francesco here - CEO at Blender. I'm going to spend some time to try and respond. If you have direct questions or comments, reply here!
Why take corporate money? Why take THIS corporate money? Why not throw this out to the Blender community at large and include them in this decision BEFORE accepting this money? The complete disregard for user's very valid concerns with regard to AI and especially Anthropic AI money in a beloved FOSS project is insulting in the current world. How could you not foresee the blowback?
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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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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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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@WeirdWriter @Blender - which by the way leaves us with two options: Either nobody gave a single thought to what the kind of people who use Blender would think about a move like this, or they did & said "Fuck the users, we're doing this!"...
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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense. -
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/
bad @Blender@mastodon.social !
sprays @Blender@mastodon.social with the waterspraybottle -
This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"
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@Blender i feel for whoever is managing this account, but y’all really can’t be so out-of-touch as to think the problem here is anything but the acceptance of the blood money. this is truly embarrassing to watch.
