Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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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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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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/
@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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@WeirdWriter @Blender - which by the way leaves us with two options: Either nobody gave a single thought to what the kind of people who use Blender would think about a move like this, or they did & said "Fuck the users, we're doing this!"...
@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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I do not understand the point you are attempting to make. This is an ethical argument.
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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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@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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@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 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.
@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.
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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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@noondlyt Blender has accepted a lot of corporate funding over the years. In the press release we try to make it clear that this donation will be used at Blender's discretion, but the origin of the donation is very much not appreciated ideed.
@fsiddi @noondlyt i believe blender should have a full ban on any genai contributions and should have an outwardly hostile stance against this technology
why? because it's abusive technology created using lots of violence with the purpose of devaluing humanity
the whole discussion of where the money came from is valid, and i also do not think accepting money from anthropic is morally okay. but at least be morally consistent in rejecting this abusive technology -
@art_codesmith This is currently a one-time donation.
One time too many! Return it and wash your hands of this filthy blood money! #blender #blender3d #anthropic #bloodmoney #ai #warcrimes
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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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@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.
@raphaelmorgan @jwcph Yeah, I know how these people work, and I know it’s not gonna be just about the money before long. Anthropic will hold financial sponsorship like a weapon in the future so that the blender developers will be forced to add LLM features that they, or nobody else, really asked for, but Anthropic will demand it otherwise no more sponsorship
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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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but honestly–what the fuck? this is so incredibly tone-deaf I am in loss for words.