Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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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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 It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
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@fsiddi
Q1: Of all of the previous corporate sponsors that Blender has accepted, is there one that is of the same or greater magnitude, or as controversial or socially devisive as that of Anthropic?
Q2: Are you now aware, through this onslaght of scathing comments, that this may be the most polarizing and detrimental agreement Blender has ever decided to put on paper?
Q3: And furthermore, have you weighed how much of a CEO Hero you would be if this all just 'went away' and the Blender community (both now and future) perceived you as doing the right thing and looked for more ethically and morally centered corporate sponsers?
Thanks for taking questions. This is an important open-community process. -
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/
Ffs stop accepting money from war criminals and from Ai slop pushers that are cranking out crap like this!! These people are making the world an objectively worse place.
Them giving you money doesn’t change that!
#blender #blender3d #ai #anthropic #aislop #unacceptable #bloodmoney
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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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Hi @fsiddi tbh, as long there are not some expectations from them, hope they are not buying something, than the money shall be used for good of Blender. How many functionalities / man days of developers can be achieved by this money? Are there some expectations from their side based on provided donation?
@janantos Anthropic is not buying anything, and there are no expectations attached to this. We have been putting a lot of effort in reporting development activities in our annual reports: https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/ - i hope this helps.
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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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@fsiddi you miscalculated what partnerships the Blender community would condone, and now the project's reputation has been damaged.
1) What is your plan for rebuilding community trust in you personally, and the project's stewardship team as a whole?
2) Does the project have any guidelines for vetting donors? Are there any established criteria that would cause the project to automatically reject an offer?
3) Your were aware that the donor would be controversial. Was there any internal discussion about potentially not accepting the offer, or alternatively putting the matter to a community vote? If so, what considerations overrode these?
4) Are there any strings, explicit or implicit, on this donation? Does Anthropic get any influence that a non-donor company does not?
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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 Y'all literally built yourselves off the backs of community good faith...This is going to destroy so much faith that we (users) have in you.
Their money means nothing if they are literally eating up and spitting out slop when they generate from stolen work.
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In the communications it appear that the Blender project were aware that this would be controversial.
First, as the CEO of Blender why do you value the blood money from Anthropic more than the trust and goodwill of your users and individual supporters?
Secondly, as the CEO of Blender do you and the Blender project care about ethics and if so how is that consistent with taking blood money from Anthropic with their well documented practices?
@dahnielson I very much care about users and individual supporters.
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@Blender It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
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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/
