Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor.

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@Blender what the fuck are you doing

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@gruni @Blender While I do not object to non-monetized end user piracy of just about anything, these AI companies while they can claim to be "transformative"(one of the fair use tests) are making money off the content they sieze. Making money off someone else's work makes it far harder to claim fair use.

In some cases they are using authors' or artists' work essentially to compete against them in the same market for the same money.

An equivalent to this judgement can be found in of all places Youtube's policies as of circa 2012, no idea if they still hold today. Videos with 3ed party music uploaded there get found by a scanning program and the publishers (NOT the authors!) get to decide what to do next.

Most of them simply demand their cut of the money Youtube makes selling ads on these videos, and they get it. What Youtube does NOT allow is for the uploader to sell ads and make money themselves on content with 3ed party content, that's a far bigger deal than 3ed party content on a non-user monetized channel.

These AI firms make money or hope to make money on their "work." They are using other peoples' work to make their money and (except in this settlement) refusing to share the loot. They would not be allowed to monetize videos on Youtube, and should not be allowed to monetize their derivative works anywhere else either.

I hate to have to use Google as an example, but a broken analog clock is right twice a day on civilian time and once a day on military (24 hr) time,

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@Blender
Why should artists choose you when you align with the machines that directly steal their work?

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@Blender Well, good job joining the dark side I guess?

Open source and LLM-slop thieves are not compatible.

Blood money.

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@fsiddi @greg white washing blood money is what's in it for them. Also, in the long term a slow deterioration of ethics of another FOSS project like what happened with Mozilla.

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@Blender@mastodon.social We don't want you to reword your announcement; we want you to reject and end Anthropic's sponsorship.

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@Blender Babe, it's not the wording that's tone-deaf.

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@Blender Condolences.

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@Blender
Fuck the fash, fuck this shit. Thanks for your attention

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@Blender AI;DR

Glad to know you’re cool with pedophilia, IP theft, genocide and fascism.

We are not.

Fuck you you fucking sad fucks.

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@Blender omg. No.

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@Blender Protip for everyone on *nix. Most package managers have a "mask" option which can prevent further updates from happening automatically. I see that Flatpak has one as well.

Best to go ahead and mask now while waiting for the forks to stabilize.

For Windows I believe PortableApps has a portable version of Blender if I remember correctly. (It has been a while.)

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@Blender what the fuck? Why would you do this? Do you actively hate your user base and decided you wanted to partner with someone that will cost you a lot of support and good will?

Like, did no one think this would look horrible? Are you all that out of touch?

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@Blender
Read
The
Room
Guys

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@Blender Well. was nice knowing ya.

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@Blender WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU IDIOTS!?!?

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@Blender not a good idea

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@Blender Slop money! I had better expectations of Blender.

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The frustrating thing is you know people had meetings about this and they were all yeah let's do this. Ugh! @jwcph @Blender

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@Blender The new version eliminates a "Welcome." I think we were all hoping you would eliminate the sponsor.