Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@anthropy @Blender
while those companies are scummy as hell, at least they produce a product.
anthropic essentially just walks into public art exibits, takes shitty photos without asking the artist and then sells those as prints at low prices driving the original artist out of buisness.
They literally cannot function without theft.

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@Blender as an artist, professional designer, someone professionally familiar with LLMs and rejecting the practices of their trainers and providers, I think especially given your user base this is an exceptionally bad decision and the signal this sends should have been considered much more carefully.

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@gruni @Blender Pretty much, yes. However, the sooner I freeze the sooner I can stop thinking about it. It does enough of what I need already.

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@tillbtc @miss_rodent @Blender Not unlikely that future policies will talk about auto-donating projects to anthropic for training (opt-in first, then opt-out).

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@art_codesmith Personally I find this a difficult ethical question. The conditions under which a donation is received matter. In this case it's raising a lot of concern.

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@Blender

Why?

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@fsiddi @art_codesmith

> This is quite intense.

hahahahaha

not yet.

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@Blender Fork.

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@Blender@mastodon.social Now glad I never expended any effort learning how to drive Blender.

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@Blender Have you accepted a donation from Apple/Alphabet/Microsoft/Meta before. If so, does this donation differ from those in any way?

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@fsiddi

This is very sad. By all accounts, Blender seems like a great software. I had hoped to pick it up and learn it someday.

Now I guess I won't.

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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?