<![CDATA[The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy...]]>Anthropic is now a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund. What does the being a Corporate Patron mean? What are the implications for the Blender software suite? And what should the Blender Foundation take from this?

00:00 The major players
00:30 Why this shouldn't be a problem
03:00 AI is just toxic
04:32 The erosion of social trust
05:08 A diagnosis
07:37 The cure

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/38a800d6-3d0e-4451-9c3d-510d120f82c5/the-blender-anthropic-situation-is-crazy...RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 22:36:29 GMTWed, 29 Apr 2026 18:07:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:26:31 GMT]]>@ticho@mas.to @judah_account@ribbit.pitools.org @fedivideo@fedi.video I had an idea for a website kinda like Patreon and I bought the subscribeto.me domain for way too much money. Then I realized that my implementation sucked and I wasn't interested in building it anymore... so I had this (expensive) domain sitting around and I thought it would make sense for a Peertube instance. https://podcast.subscribeto.me is also a Fedi-enabled podcasting feed through Castopod.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/14299https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/14299Sun, 03 May 2026 11:26:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Sun, 03 May 2026 11:22:10 GMT]]>@artyom@piefed.social I thought I did explain:<br />It's not a big deal at all except for the fact that Anthropic and OpenAI are the faces of undermining the creative economy on the web. That makes the decision by Blender to accept Anthropics donation a slap in the face to every single one of their users.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/14298https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/14298Sun, 03 May 2026 11:22:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:38:50 GMT]]>@ticho@mas.to @judah_account@ribbit.pitools.org Yup, don't worry Ticho, it's just a normal PeerTube link. PeerTube video links use random numbers and letters to give them unique URLs. I don't know why Bryant picked a domain called "subscribeto.me" but it's just his personal PeerTube address and isn't any kind of subscription system.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.video/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/28375https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.video/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/28375Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:38:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:29:10 GMT]]>@ticho@mas.to That's just the peertube instance on which this video was posted. It's a part of the fediverse, just like Mastodon. I'm responding to this on ribbit.pitools.org, for example.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ribbit.pitools.org/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/22259https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ribbit.pitools.org/videos/watch/17997ffc-b743-4b31-b6a0-beff4ed329c3/comments/22259Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:29:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:05:17 GMT]]>@gbryant Sorry, not clicking a link that says "subscribe to me" and and has an apparent identifier string in it. Not unless I know what I'm subscribing to and decide it's worth it.

Extremely unfortunate optics if it's really just a blog post with no strings attached.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ticho/statuses/116490260821129957https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/ticho/statuses/116490260821129957Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:05:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The Blender/Anthropic situation is crazy... on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:48:33 GMT]]>I don't understand what the problem is. And I don't think you explained it.

Yes, Anthropic bad. But this is not a business transaction. AFAIK they did not offer Anthropic anything in return. Why not let a tiny good thing come from the AI shitstorm?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piefed.social/comment/11146965https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piefed.social/comment/11146965Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:48:33 GMT