Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Do you want your software to be used in war crimes? Because this is how you get your software used in war crimes.

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@Blender This is NOT OK.

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@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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@Blender@mastodon.social

You were tone deaf the moment you allowed AI slop into your codebase, you cowards.

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@Blender oh, buddy, no.

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@fsiddi @titania is that understanding in the room with us right now?

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@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?

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@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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@Blender "The Blender developers have created an MCP connector"

Ah, I think I've found the problem.

Cite: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work

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@Blender ‍️

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@fsiddi Resign.

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@fsiddi the ideals and behaviors of your donor are diametrically opposed to those of your customers. Did that not seem worth discussing prior to accepting the money?

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"A lot of feedback" 🫠 Here's some more : ... 🤬 ....

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@Blender sucks

But let me use this thread to remind everyone that Mastodon recently accepted funding from Jeff Atwood of Stackoverflow, who happily turned over all of Stackoverflow data to the AI overlords while their developer community fumed.

Its sad but we're all complaining on a platform that's already tainted with billionaire money.

I don't write any original content here. I'm sure it will go to the AI training data mill at some point.

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@jwcph @WeirdWriter I hate that I can't even blame them that much if it's the latter. Don't get me wrong, it was 100% the wrong decision, but at the end of the day the devs all live under capitalism and need to put food on the table. FOSS, like all good things, often goes against its fundamental morals in order to survive in systems where people only have time to make good things if we're paid by a corporation to do it, charge people to use it, or have the financial privilege to work for free.

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@noondlyt no, while there might be an ethical argument to make, you're not making an ethical argument. You're making an argument about value exchange.

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@Blender well, we had a god run folks. but honestly–what the fuck? this is so incredibly tone-deaf I am in loss for words.

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@anthropy
i myself sadly don't have spare money to give to blender
I only use it sparingly anyways but I always liked it as a posterchild for functioning opensource software.

Something that wasn't perfect by any means, but an example of what can be achieved if people work for the greater good.

AI-companies aren't just another capitalist megacorp, they are fundamentaly inhuman, uncreative, and antithetical to human expression/art.

Blender as a concept is fundamentaly incompatible

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@jwcph @WeirdWriter that said, I will continue to prop up any and all FOSS projects that find some sort of compromise that doesn't involve taking bribes from technofascists. Ardour, from what I remember, gets money from charging users, while still keeping the software available for people like me who can't afford the official version with tech support. And if I ever become able to financially support the FOSS I use, Ardour is near the top of the list and Blender has been thoroughly removed.