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

[dielectric_boogaloo@mastodon.social]

@Blender taking dirty money now, are we?

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@Blender

I can easily find a donate button on their website.

But I can't find a "contact us" page.

I want to ask them how many Gazan babies need to be crushed under rubble, starved, have legs blown off, be blinded, or carried to a hospital by their distraught parents in multiple plastic bags hoping the doctors (who haven't yet been kidnapped and tortured) can sew them back together and bring them back to life ... in order to pay for 2 blender developers?

#blender3d #opensource #genocide

[mancube@pnw.zone]

@Blender jesus christ

[thejacenallen@mastodon.social]

@Blender just another garbage company. Gfy.

[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.

[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