The recent announcement about Anthropic joining the Blender Development Fund as…
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The recent announcement about Anthropic joining the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron member has raised concerns from the community around how we engage with AI topics.
This is how we plan to address the issue: https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies — Blender
An update after the latest Development Fund announcement.
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Comments (8)
@Blender I'm not sure what to think about still accepting the money, it's a compromise where I would have loved to see a very clear 'no thanks' to such a harmful company.
But I'm happy you considered our feedback and did something with it at least.
Personally I hope you can find another way to deal with corporate funding in the future. I'd rather wait a year longer for a new version of Blender than seeing some of these mega(maga)corps like google and meta on the fund.
@Blender if this text doesn't include "we're going to kill everyone in anthropic" it's probably not going to work sadly (yes we do want anthropic to die)
Anyways good on you for stealing money from some douchebags, just don't let them speak even a single word, in fact, erase them from the list of people who paid you. They aren't people anymore anyways.
@Blender i love the comments in the thread and i agree.
Its similar to accepting blood diamonds as a donation.
The source of the money matters.
@Blender "Blender is a tool for artists and creators, it’s made by humans for humans."
What place does generative AI have here, then?
I don't usually think that purity should stand in the way of the good but as you say yourself, you are a tool for artists and genAI is hurting artists. Anthropic is hurting your user base. I understand that FOSS projects need funding but this is a line in the sand moment.
@Blender I guess I'll be a dissenting voice here, but for as evil Anthropic is, funding from Meta is a thousand times worse. That bothered me more and will continue to bother me more.
@Blender You can address the issue by giving the blood money back and by pledging to never add AI bullshit into Blender, ever.
@Blender The correct course of action is to NOT take the money.
@Blender I totally get the point that this donation is problematic. I definitely have a bad feeling, seeing Anthropic in the list of donors.
But I miss a few points here: First, for me it doesn't make sense to see all the AI companies donating to blender (Google, Meta, Adobe, Nvidia...) and now it's suddenly a huge problem with Anthropic (who probably aren't even the worst in this list)? I know Blender has been criticised for the corporate donors before but probably not as extreme as now.