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

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@Blender

[virtualbri@mastodon.online]

@Blender When your announcement has to come with a disclaimer, it certainly raises eyebrows. I don't know that taking money from a massive intellectual property theft ring is a good look.

[nick_stevens_graphics@mastodon.art]

@Blender

For shame.

This is not even close to acceoptable.

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@Blender Ouch! Out of touch much?

[retrakker@mastodon.social]

@Blender @tonroosendaal ... why?

[mykolak@fosstodon.org]

@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender
If management not very bright to became fully dependant on one source, then yes, but except Mozilla I can't see other examples like this, so not very likely.

[schrottkatze@social.treehouse.systems]

@Blender oh fuck no

[c1710@social.c1710.de]

@Blender Eww

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@Blender "maybe we can eat just a little poison this time."

[riidom@metalhead.club]

@barrionomia @thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender

I just want to adress points 1 & 2 here:

They have just too many sponsors to be dependant on a single one. Even if it's from the highest tier, as in this case. The money basically pays 2 full-time salaries.

[netopwibby@social.coop]

@DBG3D @Blender Yup! You got it dude!

[seyfr@mastodon.social]

@Blender Anthropic built Claude, the AI used by Palantir.
Take their dirty, bloody money. I dont want to support technofascism. So... I won't need Blender anymore.

[aras@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender oof

[southfresh@mastodon.social]

@Blender I sure hope you have fun, "...pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools..." without a user-base.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@Blender Mother. Fucking. NO!! Are you goddamn insane!? 🤬🤬🤬

[peter_sc@chaos.social]

@Blender We did. It still sucks. This is a TERRIBLE look for the project. Anthropic and the whole "AI" project in general has been nothing but destructive to anything it touches. They're taking OUR creations, whether it be 3D models, drawings, music, writing, code, you name it WITHOUT PERMISSION and then try to sell us back a slopified, soulless version of it. Everyone has receipts! How is this not getting through?!

[lunemercove@eldritch.cafe]

@Blender please no. Don't take their blood money.

[dfyx@social.helios42.de]

@Blender That sounds like a horrible idea. Even if Anthropic doesn't get any influence, this is a massive blow to your public image.

[cancel@merveilles.town]

@Blender

[gub@framapiaf.org]

@Blender
Dirty money is dirty money.