Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.
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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.
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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!
@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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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
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. -
@art_codesmith This is currently a one-time donation.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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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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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
@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?
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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 that the blood money is ‘a donation’ is not the ethical panacea you seem to think it is.
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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.
@Blender The complete picture? Are you on crack?
This is not the complete picture until you factor in anthropic's current and past associations and actions
It's blood money you are taking, nothing you do will make it clean or good. No matter what direct influence anthropic has on the company or product, the company is now aligned with all of anthropic's ideals and crimes
by taking this money you have openly declared that you believe ecocide is fine, genocide is fine, fascist slopaganda is fine
if you want us to believe this complete picture nonsense at least say what it is, bonuses all round in return for white and green washing an LLM company at the expense of the community on which your company is founded
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@JoshuaACNewman @Blender Google and Meta are among the biggest drivers of AI in the world. They are no less bad than Anthropic.
If you draw the line at "Blender should never take donations from ANY company I disagree with" that line was crossed long long ago. They've also taken money from Microsoft and web 3 companies.
If they turned up their noses at corporate donations the way you're asking they would have basically no funding.
@ninjadodo @JoshuaACNewman @Blender probably people aren’t talking about blender’s funding from meta, google and microsoft because we aren’t in a thread about their funding from microsoft, meta or google, we’re in a thread about their funding from anthropic.
this is just whataboutism. it doesn’t refute or mitigate the criticisms people are making. it’s just an arbitrary demand that every historical bad decision by blender be addressed simultaneously with the current criticism
