Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

even if that's true, it's not an endorsement that the user community wants to see.

just read the room

[Gast]

@Blender Nobody has been under a big enough rock to not know how their userbase would react to such an awful decision.

[Gast]

@krautdragon @thibaultmol @eden @Blender

the agenda might very well just be paid advertising (which this already is - look at that terribly positive and uncritical description - right after talking about "divisive times" ffs)

I can only hope that it doesn't pay off for them and blender got a bag that warrants this blunder

[Gast]

@Blender
Sind die ein bisschen doof?

[Gast]

@kianga @Blender

Unsurprisingly, some have expressed a similar sentiment in a slightly more coherent and grown-up way(!)

Try this post:
https://dc801.space/@AdmiralPotato/116483214185956538

[Gast]

@Blender Yikes.

[Gast]

@Blender : Well, it is not good news. I hope you will not hire the Firefox CEO too......

[Gast]

@Blender Oh ffs...this is why we can't have nice things

[Gast]

@Blender Really? How about no?

[Gast]

@Blender Anthropic is a defense contractor and works with the US Government and Palantir to do some absolutely horrific shit. Claude Code was recently used to bomb a little girl's school.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20260312035736/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/project-maven-ai-us-airstrike-iraq-anthropic-b2929138.html

That's just the tip of the ice berg. Anthropic is a really horrible company with no ethics:

• https://aidirtylist.info/entities/anthropic/1/

[Gast]

@Blender
https://youtu.be/cMTAUr3Nm6I

[Gast]

@Blender@mastodon.social I'm appalled by this decision. What the hell. Do /any/ of you know what that company is doing to the world??

[Gast]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender
Step1. They send a big loave of cash
Step2. That cash becomes important to your anual budget
Step3. 2-3 years on, they subtly pass the message about their preferences regarding future projects, road mapping, et al (or else funding "could" be "thought about")
Step4. The coin drops in your brain
Step5. You've been taken over and your current working model is fucked (if not the whole endeavour)

But probably I'm just being paranoid. It ain't as if... wait

[blender@mastodon.social]

Make sure to check out the full message on https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ and the funding policy at https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/ to get the complete picture.

[Gast]

@Blender

They cannot possibly be paying you enough to make this worthwhile.

[Gast]

@Blender yeah, i really hope this is just taking the free vc money and running

[Gast]

@Blender ok i will write objs in vi then

[Gast]

@Blender uninstalling

[Gast]

@Blender Mixed feelings here.

On one side: more money for Blender is good.

On the other side: Anthropic is very much not friend-shaped.

[luna@lunar.place]

@Blender@mastodon.social Regardless of how little influence anthropic will have, just taking their money is NOT a good move for a creative software