Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender
Why should artists choose you when you align with the machines that directly steal their work?

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@Blender Well, good job joining the dark side I guess?

Open source and LLM-slop thieves are not compatible.

Blood money.

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@fsiddi @greg white washing blood money is what's in it for them. Also, in the long term a slow deterioration of ethics of another FOSS project like what happened with Mozilla.

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@Blender@mastodon.social We don't want you to reword your announcement; we want you to reject and end Anthropic's sponsorship.

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@Blender Babe, it's not the wording that's tone-deaf.

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@Blender Condolences.

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@Blender
Fuck the fash, fuck this shit. Thanks for your attention

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@Blender AI;DR

Glad to know you’re cool with pedophilia, IP theft, genocide and fascism.

We are not.

Fuck you you fucking sad fucks.

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@Blender omg. No.

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@Blender Protip for everyone on *nix. Most package managers have a "mask" option which can prevent further updates from happening automatically. I see that Flatpak has one as well.

Best to go ahead and mask now while waiting for the forks to stabilize.

For Windows I believe PortableApps has a portable version of Blender if I remember correctly. (It has been a while.)

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@Blender what the fuck? Why would you do this? Do you actively hate your user base and decided you wanted to partner with someone that will cost you a lot of support and good will?

Like, did no one think this would look horrible? Are you all that out of touch?

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@Blender
Read
The
Room
Guys

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@Blender Well. was nice knowing ya.

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@Blender WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU IDIOTS!?!?

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@Blender not a good idea

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@Blender Slop money! I had better expectations of Blender.

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The frustrating thing is you know people had meetings about this and they were all yeah let's do this. Ugh! @jwcph @Blender

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@Blender The new version eliminates a "Welcome." I think we were all hoping you would eliminate the sponsor.

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@Blender

Blood money, made by proudly supporting maiming and killing.

Removed Blender from our list of recommended FLOSS.

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@Blender eeewwwww 🤮