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Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/
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RelativityRangerBlender is a tool for artists and creators, it’s made by humans for humans. No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender.
So will Claude be able to create in Blender?
C’est déjà possible avec des addons et la communauté accepterait sûrement pas que ce soit intégré directement dedans
Merci pour la mise à jour. Si la communauté réfuse l’intégration, les utilisateurs de Claude et les utilisateurs de ces addons… ne pourront-ils pas dépasser les travaux de la communauté? Ne pourront-ils pas créer n’importe quoi qu’il soit qu’ils imaginent?
artyomWhat do we make of this? Why this? Why now?
E: relevant blog post
https://gardinerbryant.com/the-blender-x-anthropic-thing-is-an-overreaction-but-also-not-at-all/
Best alternatives to blender on linux?
TomkoidFork
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆And who’s going to develop this fork?
Whoever wants to. Hasn’t this been the FOSS signature forever? If you don’t like where it’s going fork it.
The reality is far more complicated than that. Maintaining a large project takes a lot of work in practice, and you can’t just fork it and expect the fork to magically succeed. There are very few examples of such successful forks in the wild.
AnyOldName3To add to this, when forks do succeed, it’s typically because they’re either making very few changes which can easily be reapplied to new versions of the original project, or because a significant number of the existing developers disagree with the project lead and are just doing what they were already doing before the fork, just without having to obey one specific person.
Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.
Girl Named ZERO (she/her)
Jake FarmAre non-profits even allowed to refuse donations?
Can I reject someone’s transfer into my bank account? Yes. Then any good legal system allows non-profits to reject donations.
So they donate €240k per year and they have a say in where that money goes? I don’t imagine this will be the AI takeover everyone thinks it is.
Really disappointed by this, this will not be good for Blender.
Really curious why you would say that. Was Anthropic given something in exchange?
Would they need to for it to be worrying?
There needs to be some reason for it to be worrying, and I’m not seeing it. So what is it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.
JumutaI’d guess they want restrictions because they want to stay on top? (and keep everyone else down)
The media is pushing that as a solid theory and it’s not crazy. What’s bad for openai is good for anthropic / etc, but there are a lot of places they could be putting that money that would benefit them more directly.
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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Before anyone goes nuts over this, look at the companies already listed on the Blender Development Fund page
That’s not helping…
Don’t like that.
well i like blender and you didnt take the time to ubdersrand how a patron donation works. adobe and meta have donated as well