Today Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as corporate sponsor. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development. More details at blender.org/press/anthropic-jo…
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Anthropic is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron.Francesco Siddi (Blender)
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Kianga
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •aeva
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Mak
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •ιέρεια Εδέμ
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to ιέρεια Εδέμ • • •Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •UkeleleEric
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to UkeleleEric • • •As a FOSDEM staff member, I can tell you it's the same thing there. They don't get to dictate anything
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •@thibaultmol @UkeleleEric @eden So, legally speaking (EU tax laws vary, but seem to converge on this), *donations* cannot be based on reciprocity. A public statement thanking the donor is about as far as it can go, or the recipient is in hot water tax wise.
*Sponsorship* is not tax exempt, and can therefore include all the reciprocity the two parties can think of.
So whereas e.g. FOSDEM treats things one way, it does not follow that any other sponsorship has to follow the same rules.
El Duvelle
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Why??
But also, this is a great occasion to remind people that #Onshape exists and is a great and easy to use 3D modelling platform, and if you are in education / research you get free access to it:
onshape.com/en/
Onshape | Product Development Platform
Onshape, a PTC BusinessBlender 🔶
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Alexander 'Gruni' Grunert
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •It's not the announcement, that's tone-deaf. It's the actual acceptance of dirty money by a bad actor that's tone-deaf.
Just in case you forgot: bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg9…
They paid $1.5bn because they were IRREFUTABLY CAUGHT PIRATING.
AI firm Anthropic agrees to pay authors $1.5bn for pirating work
Lily Jamali (BBC News)reshared this
Lisa Melton and Aral Balkan reshared this.
Morten Juhl-Johansen
in reply to Alexander 'Gruni' Grunert • • •DFYX
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •The need for multiple clarifications and rewordings should tell you that THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
The only way to save this is to take a clear stance and refuse to ever work with any AI company.
Craig P
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Didn't reword the whitewashing paean to the corporation on your website, though. You'd whitewash anyone.
Pathetic.
Tariq
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Non.
No.
Nah.
Niet.
Blender 🔶
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Francesco Siddi (Blender)Diana Probst, Cambridge Artist
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •DFYX
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •FediThing
in reply to DFYX • • •Francesco Siddi
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •FediThing
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •siwek
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •> In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project [...]
I wanted to write some thoughtful reply to that, but you know what..
Simply, fuck off.
Admiral Potato
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •Mudlark
in reply to Blender 🔶 • • •blender has been the biggest success story in FOSS since Linux. Why do this? Are there no actual artists or creators involved in these decisions?
Anthropic is also significantly involved with war and violence. Does the project accept those kind of sponsors now?
I feel like accepting this sponsorship is going to have knock on effects for the project that go much further than the size of the cheque you’ll get - you’re damaging trust, not just with the users ( not that the project leadership cares about what users/artists think, clearly ) but with devs and the people who contribute to the project. They’re not dumb, and they don’t have to donate their time if they don’t feel the project deserves it