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

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@Blender to expand a little on the wave of disappointed replies you're seeing, genAI has been a scourge within a huge range of artist communities for the past few years. on balance it has made the lives of a large % of visual artists worse, has been used as justification to pay them less or not at all - despite being trained on their work without their permission.
the boosters are loud and very well-funded. please instead listen to your community.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Blender Getting a lot of use out of this lately.

[otyugh@pouet.chapril.org]

@Blender

[seanking@woem.men]

@Blender@mastodon.social If you had a spine, you'd tell them to fuck off with their vibe coding crap.

[pirquin@mas.to]

@Blender You understand that this sounds **very** worrying to your user base, right?

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@thibaultmol @eden @Blender and if you believe that.. I have a Nigerian Prince's money I'd like to send you...

[ooray_creation@mograph.social]

@Blender Some offers should better be passed on.

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@Blender that company is not trustworthy or any of the other things they got you to say about them in this post for money

something timely for you:

(www.reddit.com)

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@UkeleleEric @eden @Blender what? it's not a scam. They send the money to your account and you put their logo on your site. that's it.
As a FOSDEM staff member, I can tell you it's the same thing there. They don't get to dictate anything

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@krautdragon @Blender Isn't that a bit close? I'd say 100 miles just to be sure.

[danana_dread@tech.lgbt]

@Blender Some of the most miserable news I've heard out of software lately.

Taking the US Military Industrial Complex's blood money is reason enough to switch tools.

Giving corporate AI slop-peddlers influence over what features the devs are to prioritize doesn't give me faith in the tool's future either.

Fucking shameful.

[welshpixie@mastodon.art]

@Blender

yikes

[darkrat@chaosfurs.social]

@Blender

[jenny753@indiepocalypse.social]

@Blender Dirty money. Shame on you.

[admiralpotato@dc801.space]

@Blender you guys... I have been financially supporting you for like 15 years, and I help run the SLC Blender User Group to promote free and open tools for everyone. Reading this breaks my heart. As an artist who's art has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, and as a coder who's code has been stolen by this plagiarism machine, this feels like a pretty hard slap in the face. Your community doesn't want you taking dirty money like this from unethical tech bros. Please reconsider.

[krautdragon@mastodon.social]

@thibaultmol @eden @Blender I have doubts about the generous heart of AI vultures. These dude's donating towards creatives / creative software without an agenda?

[brhfl@digipres.club]

@Blender i’d rather welcome ebola as a virulent patron sponsor of my bloodstream. what a horrific decision.

[bx@tiny.tilde.website]

@Blender

[dbg3d@masto.es]

@Blender

I know @tonroosendaal is not anymore the head of Blender. But I expect he has something to say against this.

I never expected than a LIE like this:

"Anthropic is an AI research and development company that creates reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems."

will be published on Blenders web site.

Long thread about Claude source code:

jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

- Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile - people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend - now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

neurospace.live (neuromatch.social)

AI DOESN'T work. Is a con machine that enlarges inequality in the world. It's an earthquake affecting the lives of thousands of workers forced to use this stochastic parrots to produce code that doesn't work. Even their own code is sub par. Workers fired after train this failed machine.

The usage of natural resources for dtacenters on strained areas, or the raise of electricity bills for the datacenters to run this monsters is well reported. Along the ill effects on health of residents of nearby datacenters.

Not to mention Anthropic is on trial for STEALING materials to training Claude.

Anthropic faces trial over downloads used to train its AI

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books.

Irish Independent (m.independent.ie)

Anthropic is raising their token prices.

Idiotic employees are paying from their own pockets this tokens when the ones bought by their employeers companies (that spent thousands of euros into this fucked technology) ran out, so they can keep running prompts and not lose their jobs.

Blender users must reject this. The whole planet is at risk with the demeanors and illegalities of this AI companies.

This is like accepting money from the nazi party, the mafia, Russia, Donald Trump and Israel, all combined. 🤬🤬🤬

[dahnielson@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender I guess you do not need my recurring donation then. Just canceled my membership.