Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender this message is 28 days too late. Even then it would not be funny.

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@Blender god fucking damn it

have you seen if lockheed martin or raytheon wanna pitch in? they've got lots of cash. many corporations that are ruining the planet like anthropic could do with this kind of reputation laundering.

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@ChocoDrawing @Blender most of those companies have produced image generators of their own.

I get why artists are upset about genAI, but then why not get some money from that branch back to the artists? as long as blender doesn't make blender worse, I don't see any (new) issue to be honest

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@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender yeah that is usually how that works. However, Anthrophic's money becoming part of the annual budget is unlikely. They would need to still exist by next year.

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@danana_dread @Blender switch tools to...?

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@Blender
Terrible idea Blender. What are you thinking?

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@Blender goodbye

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@Blender is the way. Fuck obstranists: the code is already dreaming of a future that doesn't include your permission.

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@fsiddi do you have an option to refuse/return the donation? would you consider it?

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@fsiddi People are mad at Anthropic right now (and I think reasonably!), but Blender has been also taking money from Google, Meta, Epic, Netflix, Nvidia and the likes for a while now, even if they, as we saw so far, got no say on the future of Blender.

Would Blender reasonably keep up its development pace comfortably if it were to let go of the dirty money from questionable companies?

I do understand that development costs a LOT of money and requires a stable influx. I also understand the uneasiness around the morality (and not only morality) of it. Though I also feel it was a bit naive that many (including me) thought Blender was becoming a powerhouse out of nowhere ^^" In a capitalistic world, capital will often inevitably come from unsavory places

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@Blender ew

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@fsiddi @titania Just a donation, right? RIGHT?

So I guess this announcement from today is completely unrelated:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

#Blender #Slop

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@fsiddi @amosmulder Blender is one pole and its community is another.

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@fsiddi @noondlyt ”This donation was brought to you by 120 murdered schoolgirls.”

Maybe put that on the splash screen in the next blender release so people know what you stand for?

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@Blender

Another FOSS project tainted by AI corporation sponsorship.

Have fun swimming in money while you give zero hells about human creativity.

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@Blender

Hope you can at least use some of the money to buy back some of the good will you burned.

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@fsiddi

Bro, you need to resign.

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@Blender perhaps not

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@Blender Feels like

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@fsiddi I am concerned that the backlash to accepting this donation is surprising.
The fury with which large parts of the tech and tech community hate LLM companies is not a secret.