Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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.
@Blender You might, perhaps, have noticed that you have managed to annoy quite a lot of people.
Perhaps you think this will blow over, and a week from now people will forget and you'll still have the money.
Perhaps you might be right. Perhaps.
But that money comes with a cost. A cost that your organisation has now aligned itself with a company of thieves, fascists, murderers, actively harming people and the world for greed.
You are now with them.
Think about that. See if it helps you sleep.
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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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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense.@fsiddi @art_codesmith my 2 cents: I am having trouble seeing it as a donation. It's called Corporate Patronage in OP (completely different vibe) and comes with (good) publicity for Anthropic attached. When I donate something, I get nothing in return from the party I donate to. That's a donation in my book. What Anthropic pulls here is, in my book, transactional.
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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/
You should be ashamed, for this and using AI in your code regardless.
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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense.Even if this is just a simple donation, it should have been clear just how devastating the damage to Blender’s reputation would be by accepting this “blood money.”
After all, we’re talking about a company that tramples on creativity and copyright, and colludes with companies that produce software to build fascist systems.
My question is, wouldn't it have been better to ask the community first whether to accept this money? A fundraising appeal stating, "We could receive $x from Anthropic - would you rather donate yourselves?" would likely have been more successful. Both financially and in terms of reputation.
Sorry, it was a horrible decision.
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@Blender@mastodon.social If you had a spine, you'd tell them to fuck off with their vibe coding crap.
@Blender@mastodon.social @seanking@woem.men
Blender already enjoys vibe coding unfortunately
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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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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 you guys... I have been financially supporting you for like 15 years, and I help run the SLC Blender User Group to promote free and open tools for everyone. Reading this breaks my heart. As an artist who's art has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, and as a coder who's code has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, this feels like a pretty hard slap in the face. Your community doesn't want you taking dirty money like this from unethical tech bros. Please reconsider.
@Blender@mastodon.social @AdmiralPotato@dc801.space
They already vibe code Blender as it is.
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@Blender@mastodon.social @kahianyaaa@eldritch.cafe
Blender already has commits "assisted" by AI, sadly.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
You were tone deaf the moment you allowed AI slop into your codebase, you cowards.
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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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I definitely got some negative feedback , comparable to past corporate memberships. Which is normal, and once clarifying that this is just a donation, there was understanding.
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@amosmulder the idea is that we welcome funding towards the project, under Blender's condition. This usually has the support of the community. This case of funding is clearly extremely polarizing.
@fsiddi @amosmulder it's not polarising, the community is clearly against and deeply disturbed by the decision to accept this donation for many very valid reasons. I for one don't feel comfortable using software that was developed using blood money, let-alone the other ethical, cultural, and environmental reasons this is rancid.
As this is question time: How did you not see this as an obvious attempt for Anthropic to try and rehabilitate their image through your up until now good reputation? -
@ChocoDrawing @Blender I mean, not to be rude, but have you literally ever donated to blender yourself? I'm just saying, statistically the chance is very low, and these things do need funding.
As far as I can tell by their blogpost this is just about API expansions which will be welcome for anyone who writes scripts that interact with blender.
(also just to nitpick, AFAIK was Anthropic the one who said 'no' to US defense contracts, and OpenAI jumped on that opportunity instead)
@anthropy @Blender
they said no, the system was used anyway(at least as far as i could tell from articles I found, nothing is really trustworthy these days, so take that with a grain of salt)
but even if anthropic didn't kill those kids(BIG IF, claude was still integrated into maven in 2024), they are still being sued for literally stealing everything they could get their greedy hands on.
It removes the warcrime but changes nothing about the biggest art theft in human history.
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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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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!
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