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

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@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.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@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.

[thetrond75@mastodon.social]

@Blender Sounds like the Blender management team doesn't know who their users are. Tone-deaf indeed.

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@dianaprobst @Blender

- 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.

[konstruct@woof.tech]

@Blender what the fuck are you doing

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@Blender
Why should artists choose you when you align with the machines that directly steal their work?

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@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.

[nosirrahsec@infosec.exchange]

@Blender Well, good job joining the dark side I guess?

Open source and LLM-slop thieves are not compatible.

Blood money.

[eobet@oldbytes.space]

@fsiddi @greg white washing blood money is what's in it for them. Also, probably long time deterioration of ethics of another FOSS project like what happened with Mozilla.

[seanking@woem.men]

@Blender@mastodon.social We don't want you to reword your announcement; we want you to reject and end Anthropic's sponsorship.

[kosure@mas.to]

@Blender Babe, it's not the wording that's tone-deaf.

[mjj@mstdn.dk]

@Blender Condolences.

[wachoperro@rebel.ar]

@Blender
Fuck the fash, fuck this shit. Thanks for your attention

[unkx@icosahedron.website]

@Blender AI;DR

Glad to know you’re cool with pedophilia, IP theft, genocide and fascism.

We are not.

Fuck you you fucking sad fucks.

[darkathena@beige.party]

@Blender omg. No.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@Blender Protip for everyone on *nix. Most package managers have a "mask" option which can prevent further updates from happening automatically. I see that Flatpak has one as well.

Best to go ahead and mask now while waiting for the forks to stabilize.

For Windows I believe PortableApps has a portable version of Blender if I remember correctly. (It has been a while.)

[aaron_devries@mastodon.social]

@Blender what the fuck? Why would you do this? Do you actively hate your user base and decided you wanted to partner with someone that will cost you a lot of support and good will?

Like, did no one think this would look horrible? Are you all that out of touch?

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@Blender
Read
The
Room
Guys

[touk@smores.town]

@Blender Well. was nice knowing ya.

[lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town]

@Blender WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU IDIOTS!?!?