Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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@greg Can't speak for them, but they see Blender as a project worth supporting.
@fsiddi You understand you are helping them accomplish *something* right?
Anthropic isn’t a neutral party. You understand this, yes?
Stop trying to pretend this is a financial transaction that occurs in a vacuum. We’re not idiots, and neither are you.
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@Blender i feel for whoever is managing this account, but y’all really can’t be so out-of-touch as to think the problem here is anything but the acceptance of the blood money. this is truly embarrassing to watch.
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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 really disappointing and really seems like you do not value artists. AI is horrible for the environment and I'd love to see Blender take a principled stance against it.
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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 you're correct, criticizing a company that proudly boasts about bankrupting your entire user base isn't going to help anyone.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
Maybe "Blender" should be renamed "Digger" because what we have here is a case study in making a bad mistake and digging in and burying yourself.
The "controversial nature of the membership" was the problem, not the wording, if that helps.
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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/
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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, that answers the question of whether or not I should try Blender. I'll stick to software that doesn't steal from me or wreck the environment.
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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 hey y'all, don't say tone deaf. Just not a good 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 fucked it, lads.
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@Mimesatwork @Blender
I guess you can just use old versions of Blender from before they filled the program with unwanted privacy destroying bloatwaregood job Blender, you threw away all the good will in the world
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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 New Right now, for Blender, a community of artists who often see all sorts of ethical issues in AI, for obvious reasons, as Ton has pointed out many times, and with the newer, younger management, this choice definitely looks controversial. It’s a bit like a charity that helps crime victims taking money from Al Capone. I get the guidelines, but this is more of an ethical matter. That said, AI also has positive sides and won’t be able to be ignored forever.
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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 nothing. This feedback from users is really just a fraction of what's warranted given what an egregious breach of trust this announcement is.
Horrible decision. Horrible optics. Horrible sponsor.
In all seriousness, anyone involved in approving this should draft public apologies and either leave or be booted from the project.
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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 My disappointment is inexorable
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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 Could Blender still maintain its mission while Anthropic is a corporate sponsor? The scale of Anthropic and its nature as a corporation make me feel uneasy, sadly.
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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 fuck off
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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 noooooooo
32 years thrown away in one day. It really is the worst possible decision.
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@robertguetzkow Thank you for making your point in a polite way.
@fsiddi @robertguetzkow i agree 100% with Robert here.
Francesco, una delusione terribile
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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@mastodon.social /That's/ the less tone-deaf version?
You are taking money from a company whose products are been at least partially, *if not fully,* responsible for the bombing of a school full of children, and are *provably* responsible for cognitive decline.
I had once hoped to learn your software. I now hope you appreciate the past tense used in the previous sentence.
I understand needing money to continue to exist under capitalism. What I don't understand or approve of is taking *their* money.
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Maybe "Blender" should be renamed "Digger" because what we have here is a case study in making a bad mistake and digging in and burying yourself.
The "controversial nature of the membership" was the problem, not the wording, if that helps.
@AnnieBuddy @Blender I guess ChildMurderer 3D is probably the natural branding choice after this.
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@fsiddi sure, I'll bite.
1). Did you do any market research whatsoever before deciding to tank your reputation?
2). Are you planning to use Claude to draft your resignation letter in light of how badly you screwed up?I definitely got some negative feedback , comparable to past corporate memberships. Which is normal, and once clarifying that this is just a donation, there was understanding.
