@perlman Nice!

@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.

@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.

@Blender Trying to making it sound less tone-deaf doesn't make the membership itself less tone-deaf unfortunately.

On the contrary I would say...

@Blender Ouch! Out of touch much?