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

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@danana_dread @Blender

> Taking the US Military Industrial Complex's blood money is reason enough to switch tools.

Taking resources away from bad organizations is a good thing. If the only thing the US MIC gets from Blender is "legitimacy", I'm fine with that. We can reassess if/when the US MIC's legitimacy is less universal.

> Giving corporate AI slop-peddlers influence over what features the devs are to prioritize

Yeah, that's not good. The slop peddlers are just going to make things worse while illegally extracting all they can from the commons.

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@Blender "oh no it's cool guys they will only be working on our internal code, totally not stealing art and ideas" that's ok then, it's only the same Anthropic who deleted all of PocketOS including their backup code

[joshaspinall@mstdn.social]

@Blender Uuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhhh......

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@cmccullough I was about to start. I guess I'll have a small bit more free time now

[solitha@mastodon.social]

@t_robinart I can't speak for him but, as a native English speaker, this is my own interpretation.

Corporate sponsors often bring some sort of terms with them. The idiom is "with strings attached."

I understand the "balance" to be between that, and individual donations from the users that Blender serves.

Problem is, they may lose a lot of individual donors over this, which could upset that balance. I think @fsiddi needs to grasp that genAI/LLM companies are unacceptably toxic.

@keeya

[johnbrown@thecanadian.social]

@Blender seriously?? I was just thinking about teaching my kids to use it, but now Ive got extremely serious concerns about the integrity.. of the entire project. Why would this be allowed?? Anthropic?? Wtf?

[fmarini@mastodon.social]

@t_robinart @fsiddi @keeya money. He’s talking about the balance sheet. Which will be now tainted by blood money.

[karlggestd@mastodon.social]

@Blender I'm so sorry. It was a great software.

[root42@chaos.social]

@cmccullough Why? It's still open source. I am pretty sure someone will fork it. No, let me rephrase it: Already forked it!

[nonehitwonder@tenforward.social]

@Blender is there a tonally appropriate way to tell your users that you sold out your hard-earned reputation for some money?

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@Blender Et tu, Brute?

[toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe]

@Blender this is a catastrophically bad decision.

[runner@mastodon.art]

@Blender Claude is not trusted by millions of users. Nobody trusts Claude. The people who use it just don't care

[waldschnecke@chaos.social]

@Blender #enshittification I strongly believe you didn’t think that decision through.

[dec_hl@mastodon.social]

@bytebro @kianga @Blender I like your take better...

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@fsiddi @art_codesmith
Surely you people know as well as anyone that it is never 'just a donation' if comes from a company. You can't be that naive?

In this case it smells a lot like Blender is being used to whitewash the image of Anthropic as an unethical stealing slop-machine.

[shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu]

@Blender This fucking sucks.

[culturednyc@mastodon.social]

@Blender

[mjc0961@mastodon.social]

@Blender Read the room, nobody wants this.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@Blender Anthropic data centers cause massive environmental degradation. Please explain the wonderful things you're going to do with the money from that industry, and how it's going to balance said degradation.

I'll wait.

#datacenter #climate #environment