Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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@mastodon.social /That's/ the less tone-deaf version?
You are taking money from a company whose products are at least partially, *if not fully,* responsible for the bombing of a school full of children, and are *provably* responsible for cognitive decline.
I had once hoped to learn your software. I now hope you appreciate the past tense used in the previous sentence.
I understand needing money to continue to exist under capitalism. What I don't understand or approve of is taking *their* money.
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Maybe "Blender" should be renamed "Digger" because what we have here is a case study in making a bad mistake and digging in and burying yourself.
The "controversial nature of the membership" was the problem, not the wording, if that helps.
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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 What you have done is make a public statement that the developers, or at least the management, care more about funding than they do the opinions of the artists who use the project. There was no consultation and you just created a divide between the two communities for no good reason, and hopped into bed with the people dedicated to stealing the livelihoods of artists and creators, and using their work to fuel it, along with the colossal amount of energy and water their datacenters consume.
Anthropic are not an ethical company, they stripmine the internet and artistic works harder than anyone, they use the same polluting datacenters as the other companies and are directly tied to the death of children in the middle east despite their milquetoast pushback against the Trump admin. As far as anyone is concerned, you may as well have announced a partnership with Palantir, they no better in terms of deeds, only their PR is, and you have sacrificed a lot of good will to help them with that.
You can try to spin it any way you want but the issue is not the words, it is the action. I hope you feel that loss of trust was worth it when the money spigot gets turned off in the next year or two as AI companies are faced with the financial reality of the expensive operations involved with their rolling coal product, and have to start cutting costs.
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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 congrats on securing funding, I get this is important for opensource projects.
personally I don't get the outrage, Meta, Wacom, Nvidia, Microsoft, AMD, Adobe, Apple, and Netflix weren't scary enough but Anthropic does it?
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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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@fsiddi You understand you are helping them accomplish *something* right?
Anthropic isn’t a neutral party. You understand this, yes?
Stop trying to pretend this is a financial transaction that occurs in a vacuum. We’re not idiots, and neither are you.
@drahardja Anthropic can go on about its mission without getting involved with Blender. We accepted a donation, which clearly crossed a line.
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@drahardja Anthropic can go on about its mission without getting involved with Blender. We accepted a donation, which clearly crossed a line.
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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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@AnnieBuddy @Blender I guess ChildMurderer 3D is probably the natural branding choice after this.
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@Blender New Right now, for Blender, a community of artists who often see all sorts of ethical issues in AI, for obvious reasons, as Ton has pointed out many times, and with the newer, younger management, this choice definitely looks controversial. It’s a bit like a charity that helps crime victims taking money from Al Capone. I get the guidelines, but this is more of an ethical matter. That said, AI also has positive sides and won’t be able to be ignored forever.
@Blender Anyway, out of all of them, despite the ethical concerns about AI, Anthropic is the least bad. That’s cold comfort, but at least it wasn’t some other one. Now I wonder; would Blender and the new management teams have taken money from Elon Musk, or from Sam Altman, or from Peter Thiel? That’s a question worth asking.
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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.
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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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@Blender I would really like to know what is average donation to Blender per screamer in this lovely thread...
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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!
No questions. But I would like to point out this announcement went sideways here on the Fedi for absolutely foreseeable reasons.
As a group we are anti-AI-bubble. Not necessarily anti-AI or even anti-LLMs, although some don't make that distinction. *But the great majority of us on the Fedi are against everything to do with how AI is currently being marketed, delivered, and funded.*
So, there is a sense in which the announcement was like an enormous wet fart while people are eating…
