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

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@Blender Shameful and compromising of your reputation for short term cash.

[flesh@transfem.social]

@Blender@mastodon.social This is going to really mess up your optics, folks.

[nonehitwonder@tenforward.social]

@Blender no, come on, there's NO WAY you don't know how terrible a move this is.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@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!

[simplicator@federate.social]

@mhoye @Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@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.

[noondlyt@hellions.cloud]

@Blender

This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"

[sternentau@don.linxx.net]

@Blender

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@fsiddi Wait I'm confused.
Is this a one-off donation? Because neither the Fediverse post nor the announcement on blender.org imply that.

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@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?

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@lumi @Blender

It's blood in soaked money.

Not just the issue of gen ai.

[thejacenallen@mastodon.social]

@Blender scumbags

[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.