Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Big yikes. Huge, even

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@Blender Are you... are you serious? I know you guys need money, but...

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@Blender filthy money

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@Blender

Blender Slop

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@Blender It looks bad even if it isn't...
Donations from such sponsors would probably be best put into a rainy day fund to insure against such sponsors threatening withdrawal of funding at a future date.

[aks@scalie.zone]

@Blender bruh

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@Blender

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@Blender not you…

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@Blender no.

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@Blender Guess I'm sticking on an old version until someone forks the project, then.
An art tool accepting development funding from one of the biggest plagiarism-as-a-service companies, really? Fire whoever approved this.

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@Blender “Oh my god. What have they done?” - Valery Legasov, HBO’s “Chernobyl”

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@Blender ye..
how about no.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@Blender this feels problematic at best

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@Blender
I hope someone from Blender reads these comments and realizes that they have fucked up.

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@Blender
Why have you sold out?

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@Blender holy shit, no

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@Blender most of your userbase do not…

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@Blender
*Checks calendar* ...Nope. That was weeks ago...

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@Blender Seriously... Be better than this Blender.

Taking money from a company that steals your work and sells it is just shit.

Unless this is compensation for the damage anthropic has done and should be announced as such, this announcement is just propping them up while they continue to exploit you and everyone else.

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@Blender Time to get rid of Blender...