Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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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 No. Locate your ethics and return the money.
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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 Taking money from the military contractor that’s actively destroying the careers of much of your user base by stealing their work doesn’t seem like a good way to stay popular with those users, but maybe it’s just me
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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 Failing to understand the problem does not do you any favors.
If you're *really* fucking confused why people don't want this shit, you could always just FUCKING ASK US.
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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 BOOOOO HISSSSS WHAT THE FUCK IS THISSSSS
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@keeya Meta was already a corporate sponsor, as are Google, Nvidia, Adobe.
@lynndotpy None of that matters to the argument though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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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 just another garbage company. Gfy.
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@fsiddi
1. Why even accept donations from a company that isn't profitable?
2. How come you didn't realize the PR disaster?@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. -
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 Shameful and compromising of your reputation for short term cash.
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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@mastodon.social This is going to really mess up your optics, folks.
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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 no, come on, there's NO WAY you don't know how terrible a move this is.
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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 You'll have to reword it some more because anything that starts with accepting it at all still falls under "tone-deaf."
The best I can think of as a suggestion: we were forced by tone-deaf people to accept money from a known evil corporation, but don't worry, we promise we'll try not to become evil overnight. Fork now while you still can!
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@Blender Yes, the problem is definitely the tone.
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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 Accepting money from Anthropic is accepting blood money so Anthropic can launder their image. They’re, please forgive my crassness, shitting on artists, ripping them off, and produce the artistic equivalent of toxic sludge.
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"
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Note: partially reworded the social media announcement so it sounds less tone-deaf about the controversial nature of the membership.
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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 Wait I'm confused.
Is this a one-off donation? Because neither the Fediverse post nor the announcement on blender.org imply that. -
@fsiddi Wait I'm confused.
Is this a one-off donation? Because neither the Fediverse post nor the announcement on blender.org imply that.@fsiddi Also what does "it's a donation" even mean? Does this mean you would accept a donation from any organization, no matter how sketchy it is?
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@Blender the minimal morally defensible position is to reject genai entirely. it's inherently abusive technology, built on mountains of violence and has the purpose of devaluing humanity
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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 scumbags
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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!
@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.
