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

[hiisikoloart@writing.exchange]

@Blender
I hope someone from Blender reads these comments and realizes that they have fucked up.

[pteryx@dice.camp]

@Blender
Why have you sold out?

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@eden @Blender as usual this is just a monetary donation and doesn't dictate anything in the blunder Foundation

[shaperofdefiance@mas.to]

@Blender holy shit, no

[edthechem@mas.to]

@Blender most of your userbase do not…

[mcwabbit@tenforward.social]

@Blender
*Checks calendar* ...Nope. That was weeks ago...

*Loading 'Oof'*

[ahto@tiggi.es]

@Blender Seriously... Be better than this Blender.

Taking money from a company that steals your work and sells it is just shit.

Unless this is compensation for the damage anthropic has done and should be announced as such, this announcement is just propping them up while they continue to exploit you and everyone else.

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@Blender Time to get rid of Blender...

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@Blender Is it April 1st?

[disisdeguey@expressional.social]

@Blender Oh my... et tu #Blender?

[krautdragon@mastodon.social]

@Blender disgusting. I wouldn't touch that with a 100m pole.

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@Blender to expand a little on the wave of disappointed replies you're seeing, genAI has been a scourge within a huge range of artist communities for the past few years. on balance it has made the lives of a large % of visual artists worse, has been used as justification to pay them less or not at all - despite being trained on their work without their permission.
the boosters are loud and very well-funded. please instead listen to your community.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Blender Getting a lot of use out of this lately.

[otyugh@pouet.chapril.org]

@Blender

[seanking@woem.men]

@Blender@mastodon.social If you had a spine, you'd tell them to fuck off with their vibe coding crap.

[pirquin@mas.to]

@Blender You understand that this sounds **very** worrying to your user base, right?

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@thibaultmol @eden @Blender and if you believe that.. I have a Nigerian Prince's money I'd like to send you...

[ooray_creation@mograph.social]

@Blender Some offers should better be passed on.

[yinyinfalcon@mastodon.online]

@Blender that company is not trustworthy or any of the other things they got you to say about them in this post for money

something timely for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1svdm1w/psa_the_string_hermesmd_in_your_git_commit/

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@UkeleleEric @eden @Blender what? it's not a scam. They send the money to your account and you put their logo on your site. that's it.
As a FOSDEM staff member, I can tell you it's the same thing there. They don't get to dictate anything