Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

[Gast]

@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.

@Blender

[Gast]

@amosmulder We do consider where the money is coming from. In this case it looks like there was not enough consideration.

[Gast]

@AdmiralPotato @Blender

Please reconsider is being too fucking polite.

[Gast]

@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.

[Gast]

@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

[Gast]

@Blender wow what a mistake

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@Blender

[the #enshittification intensifies]

[Gast]

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

[Gast]

@Blender
Blender no!

[Gast]

@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.

[Gast]

@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?

[Gast]

@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.

[Gast]

@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?

[Gast]

@Blender can you reword it to say, "we've realized our terrible mistake, and have decided not to do business with Anthropic?"

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@Blender
This ain't it.
This is the opposite of "it".

You literally couldn't find any other sponsor?
Should we expect AI slop in the code base now? 3d tools based on AI slop?
IDK how human artists can trust you now, to be honest.

[msbellows@c.im]

@Blender Guys, it's not the wording, it's the action itself. And the problem is less whether you'll still be independent, and more that you're whitewashing an evildoer. Think the Museum of Tolerance would accept a no-strings donation from white separatists?

[Gast]

@Blender ffs

[Gast]

The feigned innocence ... yeah OK buddy

[Gast]

@Blender Developing a tool for creatives and then accepting money from a company that is not just evil but set out to systematically destroy the livelihood of creatives and creative thought in general is definitely A Choice.