Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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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@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 Thanks for the reply. Although I'm no fan of big corporations on the development fund, I get that you need funding and maybe can't be too discerning. But you make it sound like it is not a consideration AT ALL where the money is coming from?
To me (and apparently a lot of the community) this feels like a middle finger, because anthropic is polar opposite to everything I stand for as a creative (and human) and now Blender is helping them whitewash by selling them a spot on their fund.
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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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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@mastodon.social you can't see it on mastodon instances because mastodon just assumes any reaction as a "favorite", but i see lots of wrench reactions for this post. they look like this:
and they're there for a reason. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrench_react
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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@mastodon.social this will not blend, I'm afraid
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1) Thinking about that
2) This has never really come up before
3) Lots of internal discussion and feedback gathering, but probably not enough
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@Blender Nobody has been under a big enough rock to not know how their userbase would react to such an awful decision.
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@the_wub @ell1e Yes, thanks for asking. The problem with hard forks is that actually developing a software, let alone one at this scale, is much more involved than what small teams like the one of Bforartists can do. Though, I do not share their stance on how they seem to approach their project.
The successful hard forks tend to be the ones where a significant number of original developers switch to the new project. We probably have to see how Blender's devs/contributors react here.
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@fsiddi Thanks for the reply. Although I'm no fan of big corporations on the development fund, I get that you need funding and maybe can't be too discerning. But you make it sound like it is not a consideration AT ALL where the money is coming from?
To me (and apparently a lot of the community) this feels like a middle finger, because anthropic is polar opposite to everything I stand for as a creative (and human) and now Blender is helping them whitewash by selling them a spot on their fund.
@amosmulder We do consider where the money is coming from. In this case it looks like there was not enough consideration.
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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.
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@Blender bruh
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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.@bjarne While we're hating on Blender for this (bad) sponsorship, can we also have proportionate scorn for their partnerships with Google, Adobe, Nvidia, and especially Meta?
These ones were worse (Meta enabled genocide on purpose for profit!) and nobody cares. The world might be better if it were more mainstream to reject Meta and their employees from civil society.
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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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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 blender has been the biggest success story in FOSS since Linux. Why do this? Are there no actual artists or creators involved in these decisions?
Anthropic is also significantly involved with war and violence. Does the project accept those kind of sponsors now?
I feel like accepting this sponsorship is going to have knock on effects for the project that go much further than the size of the cheque you’ll get - you’re damaging trust, not just with the users ( not that the project leadership cares about what users/artists think, clearly ) but with devs and the people who contribute to the project. They’re not dumb, and they don’t have to donate their time if they don’t feel the project deserves it
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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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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.
