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

[shadowfals@toot.cat]

@Blender@mastodon.social

Thanks for announcing this before I put significant energy into learning how to use Blender, because typically I name drop for the programs I use.

I feel bad for my 3D artist peers, tho.

[dianaprobst@mastodon.art]

@gruni @Blender How can I trust any of my work or development in AI-touched software? I can't keep using updated Blender in the future.

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@Blender Fucking hell. Nobody wants this.

[higgins@hachyderm.io]

@Blender This is terrible, if you can not understand why this is terrible you should not only ask yourselves if you are the bad guys, you should also answer yes.

[fireye@peoplemaking.games]

@Blender damn this sucks; please reconsider.

[o76923@kitty.social]

@Blender@mastodon.social

Yes, the extra details are lots of gum flapping that changes nothing. They gave you a dump truck full of blood money in exchange for you changing policies to benefit them at the expense of your users.

You made a bad decision. I hope your post mortem involves identifying how you failed to read the room so badly.

[wrosecrans@mstdn.social]

@Blender Dirty money.

I understand that the money is attractive and useful, but letting yourself be used by a bad actor trying to launder their reputation is shameful. Is shame just not a factor at all any more if there's some money on the line?

[rasterweb@mastodon.social]

@Blender Thanks, I hate it! 🤮

[lynndotpy@mastodon.social]

@keeya Meta was already a corporate sponsor, as are Google, Nvidia, Adobe.

[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