Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

[Gast]

@Blender Although the person behind this account may not even be involved in the agreement, it is still a bad idea. It's taking blood money from an entity hostile to creatives. That threat to their livelihoods alone is bad already. But the party involved is actively supporting fascism. As in: Destroying lives, human and nature alike.

Not cool, man. Not cool.

There must be better ways to get funding. Better does not always mean easy, but there are better ways.

[Gast]

@Blender

Oh shit.

[Gast]

@Blender
what the fuck?! have you lost your damn mind?

[Gast]

@Blender Amazingly terrible decision. Just stunning. Accepting money from some demonstrably horrible org like Anthropic aligns you with them and their values. Are these your values now?

Return the money, refuse it, or whatever - or, I suppose, show that you can be bought and that you don't actually care about anyone but yourselves.

[Gast]

@fsiddi
1. Why even accept donations from a company that isn't profitable?
2. How come you didn't realize the PR disaster?

[Gast]

@Blender@mastodon.social For what? So that you can add AI slop tools to Blender? No thank you, I will use an old version that does not implement these or use a fork that straight up removes these. And dont expect people to be happy with this, you're going to lose supporters because of this.

These companies are cancer, AI is cancer, and you know it.

[Gast]

@Blender so gross. I wanted to learn how to use Blender soon, don't think I'll bother now. This leaves a bad taste to the idea now

[lumi@snug.moe]

@Blender the minimal morally defensible position is to reject genai entirely. it's inherently abusive technology, built on mountains of violence and has the purpose of devaluing humanity

if you want anthropic to sponsor you, sure, but then also have a full genai ban and a hostile stance against it

[Gast]

@Blender any motivation and intent i had to learn blender is gone

[Gast]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

Incredibly naive statement

[Gast]

@Blender@mastodon.social

Thanks for announcing this before I put significant energy into learning how to use Blender, because typically I name drop for the programs I use.

I feel bad for my 3D artist peers, tho.

[Gast]

@gruni @Blender How can I trust any of my work or development in AI-touched software? I can't keep using updated Blender in the future.

[Gast]

@Blender Fucking hell. Nobody wants this.

[Gast]

@Blender This is terrible, if you can not understand why this is terrible you should not only ask yourselves if you are the bad guys, you should also answer yes.

[Gast]

@Blender damn this sucks; please reconsider.

[Gast]

@Blender@mastodon.social

Yes, the extra details are lots of gum flapping that changes nothing. They gave you a dump truck full of blood money in exchange for you changing policies to benefit them at the expense of your users.

You made a bad decision. I hope your post mortem involves identifying how you failed to read the room so badly.

[Gast]

@Blender Dirty money.

I understand that the money is attractive and useful, but letting yourself be used by a bad actor trying to launder their reputation is shameful. Is shame just not a factor at all any more if there's some money on the line?

[Gast]

@Blender Thanks, I hate it! 🤮

[Gast]

@Blender taking dirty money now, are we?

[Gast]

@Blender

I can easily find a donate button on their website.

But I can't find a "contact us" page.

I want to ask them how many Gazan babies need to be crushed under rubble, starved, have legs blown off, be blinded, or carried to a hospital by their distraught parents in multiple plastic bags hoping the doctors (who haven't yet been kidnapped and tortured) can sew them back together and bring them back to life ... in order to pay for 2 blender developers?

#blender3d #opensource #genocide