Post B5rKSwz7ahSKudz5xQ by Blender@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5rKSwz7ahSKudz5xQ by Blender@mastodon.social
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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/#b3d #DevFund
       
 (DIR) Post #B5rm7AJ6AykKZnjG64 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @Blender oh no, you don’t get to “address the issue” now. You’ve already lost.Your codebase is already infested by “AI” vommits, making it not properly licenced FOSS any more: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116483286991823696
       
 (DIR) Post #B5rmBI6t6f5bw3z7bc by amosmulder@mastodon.social
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5rmBIKiHG9GcwSA9g by mxchara@seattle.pink
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       @amosmulder Is @Blender's software even all that good? One can only hope that there are, in fact, alternatives in the works—from what I've seen so far anyway the Blender "user experience" is a deeply unpleasant one, so the knowledge that Blender's also been sopping up lots of technofascist cash suggests to me the crying need to abandon Blender altogether. Now that's a long-term sort of answer; it takes time to make software as complex as Blender. But holy heck...it would be nice if there were something else out there. Almost anything else!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5rmBKYxzEjpXj8ZeK by mxchara@seattle.pink
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       @amosmulder Oh, and let me point out something obvious: shitty @Blender UX is, from the perspective of the "generative AI" slop juggernaut, a golden opportunity. "Generative AI" starts to look like an awfully tempting shortcut solution to shitty software which people don't want to abandon for business reasons. #Blender and indeed almost all complex corporate #software is a nightmare for the unsophisticated user—in steps the slop machine, offering the user the tempting choice of not caring that the software is overcomplicated bloatware because now an "agent" is handling it.