Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

[Gast]

@Blender@mastodon.social I'm appalled by this decision. What the hell. Do /any/ of you know what that company is doing to the world??

[Gast]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender
Step1. They send a big loave of cash
Step2. That cash becomes important to your anual budget
Step3. 2-3 years on, they subtly pass the message about their preferences regarding future projects, road mapping, et al (or else funding "could" be "thought about")
Step4. The coin drops in your brain
Step5. You've been taken over and your current working model is fucked (if not the whole endeavour)

But probably I'm just being paranoid. It ain't as if... wait

[blender@mastodon.social]

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.

[Gast]

@Blender

They cannot possibly be paying you enough to make this worthwhile.

[Gast]

@Blender yeah, i really hope this is just taking the free vc money and running

[Gast]

@Blender ok i will write objs in vi then

[Gast]

@Blender uninstalling

[Gast]

@Blender Mixed feelings here.

On one side: more money for Blender is good.

On the other side: Anthropic is very much not friend-shaped.

[luna@lunar.place]

@Blender@mastodon.social Regardless of how little influence anthropic will have, just taking their money is NOT a good move for a creative software

[Gast]

@Blender this picture?

[Gast]

@Blender Please don't add a SINGLE ai-slop feature in the product. No one wants AI.

[Gast]

@Blender please don't do that. That is just a cold death grip of this grifter company ...

[Gast]

@Blender

[Gast]

@Blender When your announcement has to come with a disclaimer, it certainly raises eyebrows. I don't know that taking money from a massive intellectual property theft ring is a good look.

[Gast]

@Blender

For shame.

This is not even close to acceoptable.

[Gast]

@Blender Ouch! Out of touch much?

[Gast]

@Blender @tonroosendaal ... why?

[Gast]

@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender
If management not very bright to became fully dependant on one source, then yes, but except Mozilla I can't see other examples like this, so not very likely.

[Gast]

@Blender oh fuck no

[Gast]

@Blender "maybe we can eat just a little poison this time."