Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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@Blender You'll have to reword it some more because anything that starts with accepting it at all still falls under "tone-deaf."
The best I can think of as a suggestion: we were forced by tone-deaf people to accept money from a known evil corporation, but don't worry, we promise we'll try not to become evil overnight. Fork now while you still can!
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@Blender Yes, the problem is definitely the tone.
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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 Accepting money from Anthropic is accepting blood money so Anthropic can launder their image. They’re, please forgive my crassness, shitting on artists, ripping them off, and produce the artistic equivalent of toxic sludge.
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This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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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 Wait I'm confused.
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@fsiddi Wait I'm confused.
Is this a one-off donation? Because neither the Fediverse post nor the announcement on blender.org imply that.@fsiddi Also what does "it's a donation" even mean? Does this mean you would accept a donation from any organization, no matter how sketchy it is?
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@Blender the minimal morally defensible position is to reject genai entirely. it's inherently abusive technology, built on mountains of violence and has the purpose of devaluing humanity
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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 scumbags
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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 Did Blender really think Anthropic would be welcomed by its user base?
If no, why did you accept the sponsorship?
If yes, HOW? It can't be too hard to imagine a lot of people will see this as whitewashing of an extremely polarizing company that is regarded as a threat to society and the environment by many.
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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 I assume you MET #Anthropic, and what they always have done, yes? Namely, the stuff they have been DOING, lately?
Plus, look at the "intense feedback¨... these are the people who use the software and spread its usage among others.
Maybe listen to them. I know, dollars talk loud, but...maybe consider not killing Blender by making it Yet Another Slop Depo.
We are all TIRED, to the bone, and ANGRY, to the bone, about #LLMs. No one wants it.
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@Blender Sounds like the Blender management team doesn't know who their users are. Tone-deaf indeed.
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@Blender I'm looking for the rationale for whitewashing a horrific conpany while helping to super-heat the world, but I'm not seeing it. Help me out here?
- They're helping to kill terrorist babies?
Ok, that's unfair. Try again.
- They're helping to kill babies that will grow up to be terrorists.
Nope. Still doesn't do it for me.
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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 what the fuck are you doing
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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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@lynndotpy None of that matters to the argument though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
@keeya @lynndotpy and no one forked then.
You can still fork now.
If it's important enough, open source allows forking.
So... if it's important enough to shout about, but not important enough to fork, alienating people may not be the path.
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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, good job joining the dark side I guess?
Open source and LLM-slop thieves are not compatible.
Blood money.
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@greg Can't speak for them, but they see Blender as a project worth supporting.
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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.
