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

[domo@pizza.enby.city]

@thibaultmol @dannotdaniel @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender but you're sitting here and defending that it's "just a monetary donation". Fam, Claude code is used to kill children, an entire school of children. Why in the world are you out here defending this donation and then using your clout as a FOSDEM member to back it up? What do you think you're helping? Delete or update your comments and be better. No one needs more random white guys coming in to say "gold is gold". That's nazi shit.

[scremlin@pizza.enby.city]

@Blender this is shameful

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@Blender anyone know any alternatives to Blender now they are AI humping assholes who teamed up with people who stole people's work?

[maddy@thegayagenda.fans]

@Blender@mastodon.social Could you kindly don’t?

[fsiddi@mstdn.social]

@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.

[unkx@icosahedron.website]

@Blender lol go fuck yourselves.

Read the fucking room you fucking fuckwits and then go fuck yourselves even more.

You make me sick, you fucking fucks.

[luna@lunar.place]

@Blender@mastodon.social the only way you can reword it to be good is to say that the blender development fund rejected anthropic's sponsorship offer

[t_robinart@mastodon.art]

@fsiddi @keeya
I'm sorry, my english is not always the best, when it comes to unpack text. What balance are talking about?

[octaviaconamore@cutie.city]

@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden @Blender that's not how psychology works money comes with strings stretched whether you can see them or not, whether they're talked about or not

[geoffl@mastodon.me.uk]

@Blender

Is this The Onion?

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Blender Leaving all the ethics aside, let's take the crooked money!

[quincy@chaos.social]

@Blender

As if wording were the problem.

[keeya@icy.arcticfluff.eu]

@fsiddi Imho there is a thin red line between random corporate sponsor and companies like the "ai fash clique" that are actively trying to do harm. Whether deliberately or out of pure arrogance or ignorance. Sure, it's money that makes a good project get further. But you always need to be aware from where the money comes from.

[psychuan@plush.city]

@thibaultmol @eden @Blender hahahaha

oh wait you're serious. let me laugh even harder

HAHAHAHAHA

[mcwabbit@tenforward.social]

@Blender Although the person behind this account may not even be involved in the agreement, it is still a bad idea. It's taking blood money from an entity hostile to creatives. That threat to their livelihoods alone is bad already. But the party involved is actively supporting fascism. As in: Destroying lives, human and nature alike.

Not cool, man. Not cool.

There must be better ways to get funding. Better does not always mean easy, but there are better ways.

[soulshine@mastodon.social]

@Blender

Oh shit.

[ki@chaos.social]

@Blender
what the fuck?! have you lost your damn mind?

[steamworkgroup@glammr.us]

@Blender Amazingly terrible decision. Just stunning. Accepting money from some demonstrably horrible org like Anthropic aligns you with them and their values. Are these your values now?

Return the money, refuse it, or whatever - or, I suppose, show that you can be bought and that you don't actually care about anyone but yourselves.

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@fsiddi
1. Why even accept donations from a company that isn't profitable?
2. How come you didn't realize the PR disaster?

[enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be]

@Blender@mastodon.social For what? So that you can add AI slop tools to Blender? No thank you, I will use an old version that does not implement these or use a fork that straight up removes these. And dont expect people to be happy with this, you're going to lose supporters because of this.

These companies are cancer, AI is cancer, and you know it.