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

[jf_718@mas.to]

@Blender Uh... This seems unwise.

[noondlyt@hellions.cloud]

@Blender

Sad.

[pteryx@dice.camp]

@Blender
Are you stupid? Selling out is selling out no matter how you phrase it.

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@thibaultmol @eden @Blender That is an apt typo.

[ackack@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender This is a joke, right? After what they and the other "AI" companies have done to creative communities?

[quincy@chaos.social]

@Blender

NO!

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@Blender Why??

But also, this is a great occasion to remind people that #Onshape exists and is a great and easy to use 3D modelling platform, and if you are in education / research you get free access to it:
https://www.onshape.com/en/

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@Blender

How many children need to have their brains blown out in order to pay for 2 blender developers?

#blender3d #ai #tech #opensource #anthropic

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@makram @Blender

"It's boot-licking good."

[oliviavespera@spacey.space]

@Blender I think I appreciate that. It would be nice to have some clarity. Can you point at the elephant in the room. Perhaps even at what's occurred in Iran, given Claude might have been involved there.

I do want you to get money to support blender. But this does not make me excited. Though I appreciate you've announced it openly.

[fromjason@mastodon.social]

@thibaultmol Money: famously not used for influence

@eden @Blender

[quincy@chaos.social]

@Blender

Fuck "Anthropic". For heaven's sake, don't lie in bed with with those ghouls.

[ozebre@social.vivaldi.net]

@Blender Shame on you

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender So, legally speaking (EU tax laws vary, but seem to converge on this), *donations* cannot be based on reciprocity. A public statement thanking the donor is about as far as it can go, or the recipient is in hot water tax wise.

*Sponsorship* is not tax exempt, and can therefore include all the reciprocity the two parties can think of.

So whereas e.g. FOSDEM treats things one way, it does not follow that any other sponsorship has to follow the same rules.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@Blender

Big mistake. Huge loss of respect. Blind dumb stupid move.

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@annika @Blender

Since Claude is used in Maven... my money is on Palantir.

[dbg3d@masto.es]

@Blender

Are you taking the piss? 🤬

Seems this is not your first date with the devil 🤮

NerdNextDoor :Blobhaj: (@mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social)

And related to this, #Blender already has Claude slop commits. It's all fucked, Blender went dark. https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/336b5d0de12a438614846961b7961bbf35399eb3 https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/79e02e1405a98884cc8fd5505cc54df2c2dc5d21 https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/7ee94c067cf71845727672ed77dc25f088cd5b32 Not to mention one user has specifically admitted to using AI code review for commits that are in Blender's codebase. https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/b80b3e040dd3ac979e97540b4bb0f18a1c5ad021 https://github.com/blender/blender/commit/eaadb0c3043288d78b897b15bcc8d336c749de15 #NoAI #FuckAI #AntiAI #Tech #Technology #Animation #3DAnimation #Claude

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[keeya@icy.arcticfluff.eu]

@Blender Uh so, you are taking money from a company that enables war crimes, destroys our planet, destroys our society and steals from the very ppl that made blender successful, the art community?

No matter how it's "worded", this should be declined and Antropic be told to… to put it politely to just go away. So if Palantir comes waving with money, you'd accept that as well?

[fsiddi@mstdn.social]

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!

[nerdwolf@chaos.social]

@Blender
you cant weaselword out of this. Its not the wording thats disgusting, its the fact of taking money from an entity thats harmfull to any creative person, or democratic or antifasistic.