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

[jessebot@social.smallhack.org]

@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.

[jbz@indieweb.social]

@fsiddi @desttinghim you're correct, criticizing a company that proudly boasts about bankrupting your entire user base isn't going to help anyone.

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@Blender

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.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@Blender

Welp, alright then.

[kuranobi@mas.to]

@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.

[wwahammy@social.treehouse.systems]

@Blender hey y'all, don't say tone deaf. Just not a good look.

[bobbins@bobbinsrobots.com]

@Blender fucked it, lads.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@Mimesatwork @Blender
I guess you can just use old versions of Blender from before they filled the program with unwanted privacy destroying bloatware

good job Blender, you threw away all the good will in the world

[pafurijaz@mastodon.social]

@Blender New Right now, for Blender, a community of artists who often see all sorts of ethical issues in AI, for obvious reasons, as Ton has pointed out many times, and with the newer, younger management, this choice definitely looks controversial. It’s a bit like a charity that helps crime victims taking money from Al Capone. I get the guidelines, but this is more of an ethical matter. That said, AI also has positive sides and won’t be able to be ignored forever.

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@fsiddi @art_codesmith This is nothing. This feedback from users is really just a fraction of what's warranted given what an egregious breach of trust this announcement is.

Horrible decision. Horrible optics. Horrible sponsor.

In all seriousness, anyone involved in approving this should draft public apologies and either leave or be booted from the project.

[nexy@rebel.ar]

@Blender My disappointment is inexorable

[ciela@mastodon.ie]

@Blender Could Blender still maintain its mission while Anthropic is a corporate sponsor? The scale of Anthropic and its nature as a corporation make me feel uneasy, sadly.

[kdwarn@social.coop]

@Blender fuck off

[fanta@mastodon.green]

@Blender noooooooo

32 years thrown away in one day. It really is the worst possible decision.

[studiopomidori@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@fsiddi @robertguetzkow i agree 100% with Robert here.
Francesco, una delusione terribile

[lexyeen@plush.city]

@Blender@mastodon.social /That's/ the less tone-deaf version?

You are taking money from a company whose products are been at least partially, *if not fully,* responsible for the bombing of a school full of children, and are *provably* responsible for cognitive decline.

I had once hoped to learn your software. I now hope you appreciate the past tense used in the previous sentence.

I understand needing money to continue to exist under capitalism. What I don't understand or approve of is taking *their* money.

[unkx@icosahedron.website]

@AnnieBuddy @Blender I guess ChildMurderer 3D is probably the natural branding choice after this.

[fsiddi@mstdn.social]

@titania

I definitely got some negative feedback , comparable to past corporate memberships. Which is normal, and once clarifying that this is just a donation, there was understanding.

[jack@mastodon.sdf.org]

@fsiddi @titania Just a donation, right? RIGHT?

So I guess this announcement from today is completely unrelated:

Claude for Creative Work

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

(www.anthropic.com)

#Blender #Slop