Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 you should be ashamed.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 regardless of what your funding policy might say, accepting funding from such an infamous company that is so widely hated specifically by your user base is not a good idea.
And honestly I also find it short-sighted, given the massive bubble and constant bleed of money these companies have. Gaining long term unpopularity for what I believe will likely be short term funding seems like a poor strategy to take.
I think everyone would have been much happier if the headline was "Blender rejects funding from Anthropic", even better if it was followed by another headline saying "Blender drafts new AI policy prohibiting the use of genAI for its development process".
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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 rolls eyes clearly the problem is you're not selling the peons on taking the money from them enough, riiiiiight
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 This is a bad deal. I hope you know that. I understand you need the financial support, but this is seriously eating at the user base trust. You WILL lose users.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 Bad call, @Blender
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 so y'all were like "I can't imagine anyone who uses blender would be upset that a business determined to steal their work and jobs would be pissed off at this news. Let's announce this. Everyone will love it!".
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@Blender Eww. Fucking gross.
it's nice that y'all are liking my post but Blender doesn't get to see that. You either have to voice your own outrage or retoot mine. Just pressing the star doesn't have any effect.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 Fuck. No.
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@Blender Point to your policies all you want.
The correct choice here is to not accept the money, and to tell Anthropic & their ilk to go away. Take a meaningful stance against the companies that are actively hurting and stealing from the artists that depend on tools like blender.
Welcoming them, accepting their money, is a clear signal that you care more about the money than the people they harm - including many of your own users - to get it.@miss_rodent @Blender Well said. I just want to comment with all the traction this is getting, this isn’t it guys. It’s photography, it’s graphic art, it’s business, it’s jobs, it’s every nook and cranny you look and despite being told otherwise tech is bleeding people. If this gets more people thinking that’s great, because the tech has been here redifining human worth for a while now.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 SHAME
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@Blender I understand that funding an open source project like Blender is a challenge but you do have choice who you want to associate with. This decision is more than disappointing. I have supported Blender for years through contributions to the development fund and with my work on the bug tracker a couple years back. It has been a shining example for an open source project that I have recommended to everyone. This crosses a red line for me and I will be stopping my contribution to the development fund. I hope you take the community feedback to heart, reverse the decision, and establish a better policy that considers ethical aspects about who you're taking money from.
@robertguetzkow Thank you for making your point in a polite way.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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/
So your project is going to end up a vibe coded piece of shit - got it!
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@Blender anyone know any alternatives to Blender now they are AI humping assholes who teamed up with people who stole people's work?
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@robertguetzkow Thank you for making your point in a polite way.
Like if your decision to take Anthropic patronage is "polite" on any way.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 Disgusting.
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Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 now feel a bit less shitty, that i have installed Blender, but so far did not take the time to really learn to use it.
I would be so angry now, had i invested my time.So deleting it is.
A shame.
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@ratsnakegames @aeva @Blender Ubuntu: We did it! Guinness Book of World Records for “Scummiest, Most Out Of Touch With Our Userbase Decision AND Announcement”!! Go us!!
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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
Really? The wording is the problem?
You already got some shitstains on that list like Facebook... oh sorry I meant mEtA. I guess dirty money can taste very good if you just look the other way. On that note, who is next? Lockheed Martin? I bet they have a lot of money to spare -
Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! 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 And just like that, you threw all the good will and trust you've been accumulating for decades into a blender.
Thanks for nothing.
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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!
Why take corporate money? Why take THIS corporate money? Why not throw this out to the Blender community at large and include them in this decision BEFORE accepting this money? The complete disregard for user's very valid concerns with regard to AI and especially Anthropic AI money in a beloved FOSS project is insulting in the current world. How could you not foresee the blowback?
