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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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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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[–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

Really disappointed by this, this will not be good for Blender.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Really curious why you would say that. Was Anthropic given something in exchange?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Would they need to for it to be worrying?

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

    There needs to be some reason for it to be worrying, and I'm not seeing it. So what is it?

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

    1. The mindset of AI obsessed CEOs and tech people is toxic towards progress in any meaningful sense, having Anthropic anywhere near Blender is an awful idea for Blender's competency and power as a software since AI people are universally all bullshitters.

    2. Anthropic is NOT PROFITABLE, what is Anthropic sponsoring Blender with? Even if I didn't think Anthropic was a bunch of scammers that you don't want to associate with they don't even have anything to give, Anthropic IS NOT PROFITABLE AND HAS NO CLEAR ROUTE TO BEING PROFITABLE.

    3. The distraction of building stupid AI capabilities into Blender is a massive waste of time that will suck up more and more development time if the culture of Anthropic is allowed to degrade the Blender Community. I am learning Blender so I CAN USE IT not tell a stupid, shitty broken glitchy AI to try to cobble together something I want.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The mindset of AI obsessed CEOs and tech people is toxic towards progress in any meaningful sense

    Oh so the CEO is being given control over the direction of the project?

    Anthropic is NOT PROFITABLE

    Oh so when Anthropic starts to go under they're going to get their money back?

    The distraction of building stupid AI capabilities into Blender

    What AI capabilities are being built into Blender?

    E: No answers were provided. Just downvote and move on, I suppose.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    If we look at only the Blender Development Fund, the list of the corporate patrons include Meta, Google, Nvidia and even Adobe. In general, this is the situation for a lot of FOSS projects. If Anthropic as a Blender patron is bad news, then things were never good in the first place.

    In my opinion, whether it's good or bad, it is a compromise that we rely on.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    You'd think so, but from what I've personally heard at least... Anthropic seems to mostly be doing right by the community with their contributions like this. I could be falling for the propaganda, but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.

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

    I'd guess they want restrictions because they want to stay on top? (and keep everyone else down)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Too late, I have an AI running on a server at home. I love it like that... My know it all bitch. The other way around with only a handful of companies holding all the knowledge is totally crazy.

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