Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!

[v_d_richards@literatur.social]

@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.

[crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt]

@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!!
Blender: Hold our slop!

[mocchatek@infosec.exchange]

@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

[th3rdsergeevich@mastodon.ml]

@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.

[noondlyt@hellions.cloud]

@fsiddi

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?

[th3rdsergeevich@mastodon.ml]

@Blender Tone-deaf or not, this is the membership nobody working in the creative field should endorse.

[tillbtc@mastodon.social]

@Blender Fork it now and only merge necessary changes =P

[robchapman@ohai.social]

@Blender Reword it how ever you like - it's all to late, you laid down with pigs, you will never wash off the smell of shit!

[golemwire@fosstodon.org]

@Blender Congrats on the sponsorship!

[acrownofmoths@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender hey what the fuck?

[pizzasquidwithatophat@mastodon.social]

@Blender I almost choked on my köttfärssås.

WHAT?!?!

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@WeirdWriter @Blender - which by the way leaves us with two options: Either nobody gave a single thought to what the kind of people who use Blender would think about a move like this, or they did & said "Fuck the users, we're doing this!"...

[brhfl@digipres.club]

@fsiddi that the blood money is ‘a donation’ is not the ethical panacea you seem to think it is.

[thecreaturescollective@made.asterism.gay]

bad @Blender@mastodon.social !
sprays @Blender@mastodon.social with the waterspraybottle

[tantramar@zeroes.ca]

@noondlyt @Compassionatecrab Wait — did Firefox’s pro-AI management team take over Blender?

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@fsiddi You understand you are helping them accomplish *something* right?

Anthropic isn’t a neutral party. You understand this, yes?

Stop trying to pretend this is a financial transaction that occurs in a vacuum. We’re not idiots, and neither are you.

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@brhfl @Blender If AI enters the Blender arena then I won't, and I was about to. I'll wait.

[jessebot@social.smallhack.org]

@Blender This is really disappointing and really seems like you do not value artists. AI is horrible for the environment and I'd love to see Blender take a principled stance against it.

[jbz@indieweb.social]

@fsiddi @desttinghim you're correct, criticizing a company that proudly boasts about bankrupting your entire user base isn't going to help anyone.

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@Blender

Maybe "Blender" should be renamed "Digger" because what we have here is a case study in making a bad mistake and digging in and burying yourself.

The "controversial nature of the membership" was the problem, not the wording, if that helps.