In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.

Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender

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[–] 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I may just be being overly cynical, but once big corporations start giving money to these kinds of things, it's not a big stretch for them to start influencing things in their favour for their money. I hope I'm wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I hope you're wrong too!

    I believe projects are not all the same. Some projects might be quick to bend the knee, but others would never.

    Depends how the Blender team works I guess :)

    It is FOSS, so if it takes a turn to the worse I am sure they will be forked quickly 😄

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Bro how do you think Blender has been getting money all this time?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't really been keeping abreast of the situation. I'm only going by a gut reaction to this article. I'm happy to be proven wrong about this.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    They are sponsored by major corps like nvidia, meta,amd. Despite this they've continued to put out a good Foss product. I think they'll resist undue influence from antropic.

    But I do think they'll integrate ai inas they're working on that at the moment.

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