Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund!
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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!
Why take corporate money? Why take THIS corporate money? Why not throw this out to the Blender community at large and include them in this decision BEFORE accepting this money? The complete disregard for user's very valid concerns with regard to AI and especially Anthropic AI money in a beloved FOSS project is insulting in the current world. How could you not foresee the blowback?
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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 Tone-deaf or not, this is the membership nobody working in the creative field should endorse.
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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 Fork it now and only merge necessary changes =P
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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 Reword it how ever you like - it's all to late, you laid down with pigs, you will never wash off the smell of shit!
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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 Congrats on the sponsorship!
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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 hey what the fuck?
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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 I almost choked on my köttfärssås.
WHAT?!?!
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@WeirdWriter @Blender - which by the way leaves us with two options: Either nobody gave a single thought to what the kind of people who use Blender would think about a move like this, or they did & said "Fuck the users, we're doing this!"...
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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 that the blood money is ‘a donation’ is not the ethical panacea you seem to think it is.
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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/
bad @Blender@mastodon.social !
sprays @Blender@mastodon.social with the waterspraybottle -
This isn't tone deaf. This is deaf dumb and blind. And what you did there is called "Spin"
@noondlyt @Compassionatecrab Wait — did Firefox’s pro-AI management team take over Blender?
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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.
