Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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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 Tangent Animation alum here. I have no problem with this, the AIbros have all the money and you need as much money as you can get, and I do believe your lawyers are smart enough to make sure they can't use this to lever in some slop.
Hell, maybe they could even help you train up a tight, local LLM that could act as a built-in natural language tutor that knows the entire data structure. Be the first 3D app that teaches itself to the user on modest hardware.
I am a despiser of these hucksters, but take that money and use it well.
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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 boooo
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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 I'm angry at what you are doing.
I do not care if your announcement post of your shitty decision is tone-deaf or a perfect PR move. It does not change that you are doing something truly, deeply shitty, and no amount of fancy rhetoric will change my mind.
Change your behaviour, not your wording.
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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 I don’t think this is wise.
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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 sorry to hear about the collapse of this project. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours.
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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 are you out of your fucking mind?
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@art_codesmith
1. It's a donation
2. I expected a concerned/negative response like for other corporate memberships in the past, hence we try to make it very clear that this is just a donation. This is quite intense.@fsiddi @art_codesmith this is intense for a reason. You took money from a company that helped kill over a hundred children 2 months ago.
Killed. Children.
And you took their money.
And now you wonder why people are telling you to fuck off…
Blender is now associated with war crimes. I hope accepting the donation was worth it.
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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 RIP Blender, been nice knowing you
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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
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@Blender
The complete picture? The association is bad enough on its own
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@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 ecocide is a bad look
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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 Absolute worthlessness. I hope you're happy now that you've nuked your userbase.
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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 well this fucking sucks
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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 u suck !
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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 sure, I'll bite.
1). Did you do any market research whatsoever before deciding to tank your reputation?
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@desttinghim I try to keep messaging consistent and not cater to specific audiences. That would be misleading. Criticizing Anthropic is not going to help, what we actually do with the funding matters.
@fsiddi @desttinghim right, so you want to make sure that across the board, all the creative people using the software and investing in support are backhanded equally and with clarity, and warned away from ever trusting again.
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@Blender so sorry to hear about the collapse of this project. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours.
@amcooper I lol'd
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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 what we call blood money
anthropic makes money off of war crimes
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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 maybe you shouldn't partner with actual pirates. Read the room. Do you really think that they won't just steal our 3D art now? Because that's the message and very likely the reality. As a company you deserve the bad press over this, no matter how much you justify this.
(Sorry to the maintainer of this account, you probably aren't in a position to change things and it sucks that your whole day will be some variation of this reaction)
