Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Uuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhhh......

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@Blender seriously?? I was just thinking about teaching my kids to use it, but now Ive got extremely serious concerns about the integrity.. of the entire project. Why would this be allowed?? Anthropic?? Wtf?

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@Blender I'm so sorry. It was a great software.

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@Blender is there a tonally appropriate way to tell your users that you sold out your hard-earned reputation for some money?

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@Blender Et tu, Brute?

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@Blender this is a catastrophically bad decision.

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@Blender Claude is not trusted by millions of users. Nobody trusts Claude. The people who use it just don't care

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@Blender #enshittification I strongly believe you didn’t think that decision through.

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@bytebro @kianga @Blender I like your take better...

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@fsiddi @art_codesmith
Surely you people know as well as anyone that it is never 'just a donation' if comes from a company. You can't be that naive?

In this case it smells a lot like Blender is being used to whitewash the image of Anthropic as an unethical stealing slop-machine.

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@Blender This fucking sucks.

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@Blender

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@Blender Read the room, nobody wants this.

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@Blender Oh no. Blunder, more like.

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@Blender

Highly educated idiots.

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@Blender well that went well.

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Blender Foundation’s mission remains to empower artists with free/open source technology and tools.

Nothing is as empowering for artist quite like being happy to get a donation from a company that specialise in Generated AI and is infamous for stealing peoples' art and their work.

@Blender@mastodon.social

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@Blender No thanks!

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@Blender Tangent Animation alum here. I have no problem with this, the AIbros have all the money and you need as much money as you can get, and I do believe your lawyers are smart enough to make sure they can't use this to lever in some slop.

Hell, maybe they could even help you train up a tight, local LLM that could act as a built-in natural language tutor that knows the entire data structure. Be the first 3D app that teaches itself to the user on modest hardware.

I am a despiser of these hucksters, but take that money and use it well.

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@Blender boooo