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

[alairthephoenix@pounced-on.me]

@Blender maybe you shouldn't partner with actual pirates. Read the room. Do you really think that they won't just steal our 3D art now? Because that's the message and very likely the reality. As a company you deserve the bad press over this, no matter how much you justify this.

(Sorry to the maintainer of this account, you probably aren't in a position to change things and it sucks that your whole day will be some variation of this reaction)

[isolectra@furries.club]

@Blender Even if explained in the policy, still find this rather unpleasant. It is not a good reflection to promote Anthropic or their products in this way, and certainly, even if not affecting decision-making, still find it distasteful to accept funding from them.

[ecadre@mastodon.social]

@Blender You seriously think this is about "tone"?

[catwoman69y2k@meow.social]

@Blender I cannot support this decision in any way. Accepting money from Anthropic is quite loaded.... and part of that load is the TNT you are going to toss on the community fostered around growth for Blender

Many artists and creatives have a general negative stance on AI (especially re: generative AI). Many of these artists have been exploited or had thier work training AI without thier consent. To accept Anthropic's blood money directly takes a crap on the entire creative community.

.... and all of that us aside from the environmental damage, and the lives that this will cost. You taking money from AI companies is an endorsement of Fascism and Environmental Destruction Machines

[be@floss.social]

@Blender This is heartbreaking. I hope a fork of Blender takes off because the project clearly isn't in responsible hands.

[accela@libretooth.gr]

@Blender Read the f room and cancel the sponsorship.
Microsoft and Facebook are not enough warmonger sponsors for you?

[unkx@icosahedron.website]

@rapsneezy2 @Blender you can find some useful email addresses at https://fund.blender.org/contact/ where you can probably send those questions. If you get a reply, share it.

[shammers@mastodon.coffee]

@Blender Hey. This fucking sucks.

[gbdc@mamot.fr]

@Blender

Doesn't matter, only souls are free.

"Blender belongs to us." Legion

[bachus@mastodon.social]

@Blender Give the money back you fucking traitors

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@miss_rodent @Blender well said

do better, Blender

[teknomagic@todon.eu]

@Blender look, the problem is not the tone.

[mindiell@mamot.fr]

@Blender adios

[phf@dmv.community]

@Blender Well I guess you walked right into that huge pile of with open eyes and with every intention to actually flop down on your belly and roll around in it while it's still warm and steamy. Enjoy!

[angeles@mastorol.es]

@Blender I am surprised to see that a beloved tool by artists is accepting money from a plagiarism-as-a-service company, which is hurting that community so much. This an impressive way to alienate your users and art-loving donors.
I'll avoid using anything coming by an Anthropic booster, which is what Blender is becoming by having its logo on their page. It seems I'll need to look for an alternative software which respects their community

[valpackett@social.treehouse.systems]

@Blender <everybody disliked that>

[darkwolf@hear-me.social]

@Blender Oh god! They got Blender too! NOOOOOO! You bastards! *falls to the ground crying*

[starlily@mastodon.social]

@Blender Boo!

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@ratking @Blender this

[robertguetzkow@infosec.exchange]

@Blender I understand that funding an open source project like Blender is a challenge but you do have choice who you want to associate with. This decision is more than disappointing. I have supported Blender for years through contributions to the development fund and with my work on the bug tracker a couple years back. It has been a shining example for an open source project that I have recommended to everyone. This crosses a red line for me and I will be stopping my contribution to the development fund. I hope you take the community feedback to heart, reverse the decision, and establish a better policy that considers ethical aspects about who you're taking money from.