Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender Oh no. I liked blender. What a sad day.

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@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

i'll put another one so you can familiarize yourself with it:

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@Blender@mastodon.social this will not blend, I'm afraid

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@fsiddi my dude, it is literally never "just money".

of course, that's the kind of rhetoric to be expected from someone happy to close their eyes and accept literal blood money from a company that's jumped at every chance to cosy up to wear criminals.

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@nonehitwonder @Blender

I'm entirely baffled why these companies want to commit suicide, but for some reason, they do. I'll never use any product with AI in it. Ever.

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@roknrol @Blender No idea what Blender does, and now I don't need to bother finding out. Partnership with AI is a death sentence for any interest I might have taken in their corporation.

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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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@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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@AdmiralPotato @Blender

Please reconsider is being too fucking polite.

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@aks bruh indeed.

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@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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@Blender if I keep using 3.0 does that mean I can avoid all the AI bullshit or do I have to uninstall that version? Flogs

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@Blender wow what a mistake

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@Blender

[the #enshittification intensifies]

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@Mudlark @Blender I would not rule out Blender getting forked over this, just as Openoffice was forked to LIbreoffice after Oracle bought Sun Microsystems

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@Blender
Blender no!

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@Blender This is a disaster. Some money really ought to be turned down. Version freezing our blender, and never updating again unless this decision is reversed.

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@fsiddi@mstdn.social @Blender@mastodon.social Yeah I'm gonna second what others have said -- how did you imagine this going over with your users? Did you expect indie artists to welcome genai with open arms?? Was there a survey or something that suggested this would be the case?

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@Blender
i sincerely didn't thought you'll manage to fall even lower than accepting slop and yet, here we are.
you didn't even cared enough to listen to users, developers and artist all alike not only once but twice as of now.
there's not gonna be a third time to rip those tumors out and return the money.

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@fsiddi So, will Anthropic's name be gone from the (nearly top of) Blender's credit page, assuming they don't renew the donation? If so, when is it expected to happen?