Welcome Anthropic as a Corporate Patron sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s…

@Blender Anthropic built Claude, the AI used by Palantir.
Take their dirty, bloody money. I dont want to support technofascism. So... I won't need Blender anymore.

@Blender I sure hope you have fun, "...pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools..." without a user-base.

@Blender Ugh.

That's icky as hell.

@Blender this doesn't make it any better. This company feeds on the visual and engineering creativity of your users and developers. Why would you take money from a company that is by design non-ethical?

@Blender I did.

Fuck right off with that. I do not give a fuck about your excuses for accepting what is essentially blood money from a company that kills creativity and steals from the open source community with impunity. I regret ever giving a single dime to you and will not do so ever again. Fuck you. Fuck off.

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

@Blender
The complete picture? The association is bad enough on its own ☹️

@Blender You're getting in bed with a company whose products are used to murder schoolgirls.

Give the money back.

@Blender They sure as shit aren't doing it for the benefit of you, the community, or anyone else on Earth. Only themselves and their investors.

@Blender I don't even know how to properly word how I am feeling. I started learning 3D in Blender to make a point, a statement, to escape the corporatization, and the stupidification of people, through the AI FORCED on us EVERYWHERE we go.
You allow this stained money to fund you? Anthropic, a company that has recently settled BILLIONS to artists it STOLE content from? A company whose own stupid AI deleted their a database?...
This is a stab in the back to us, who have been supporting you...

@Blender I know you are probably already drowning in negative feedback. But I kinda have to chime in. Maybe I have just become a grumpy conservative old dude, but I dont like the feeling of knowing that my dear free and safe space Blender is being sponsored by one of the things I despise the most. :/

@Blender Didn't reword the whitewashing paean to the corporation on your website, though. You'd whitewash anyone.

Pathetic.

@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 the foundation seriously thinks that makes it better? you're taking money from a company that would rather steal the work of millions for profit than prioritise your morals and ethics?

the only way that any of us would be happy again is that you revert this but even now the damage has already been dealt and is only getting worse and none of this going to be fixable in the slightest.

Note: partially reworded the last part of my message so it shows the effect of this decision to you.

@Blender BWAHAHA "less tone-deaf" . So you acknowledge that even your re-word is still tone deaf. Thanks for helping to destroy our online world at the same time these clowns burn our actual world. Ffs.

@Blender Sounds like the Blender management team doesn't know who their users are. Tone-deaf indeed.

@Blender I'm angry at what you are doing.

I do not care if your announcement post of your shitty decision is tone-deaf or a perfect PR move. It does not change that you are doing something truly, deeply shitty, and no amount of fancy rhetoric will change my mind.

Change your behaviour, not your wording.

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

@Blender that money was partially gained by killing little iranian schoolgirls for the us-military.

You have given yourself only two options here:

Either you don't know where your money comes from(bad)

Or you just don't care(worse)

And this is still ignoring the fact that ANY generative-ai only exists because it steals art directly from your userbase.

But that's just what ai-companies do right?
So you seem to think that's "fine" and "acceptable"

Enjoy your blood money I guess

@Blender Give the money back.

@Blender
Too late Blender, you look shady as hell right now unfortunately...

@Blender Dear social media worker. I hope you read this. Hi, we know you're job sucks. It's what you chose to make a living with. I hope you're job isn't on the line due to some "negative" press for this @Blender company. You've found the real world in social media form. We are not what you're boss or his bosses want to know exist. Because this is a large influx of cash coming from a well known threat actor, most are happy to stop using this program. Good day Sir/Madam/LGBTQ+

@Blender This is not a matter of
wording.... If you think it is, then you really ARE tone-deaf.

@Blender 🖕🏼