After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    “Like all Blender donations, it will be spent on core activities for the Blender project, supporting human-driven development, art, and creativity”.

    And what does Anthropic get in return?

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Likely nothing in this case since they aren’t going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn’t bad because it’s open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn’t bad.

      “No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender”

  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
    381·
    2 days ago

    I simply cannot see any good coming from Foundations receiving funds from objectively bad Corporations. Hope I’m wrong.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
      122·
      2 days ago

      I’m more on the side of “never stop an adversary from making a mistake”.

      If they give their dirty money but have no control or power over you, take it and use it for your own agenda.

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.

    • Yttra@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      If they have a significant amount of money to donate to a foundation the odds are they’re evil anyway.

      Foundations can just not get enough money and collapse, if you want.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’m totally okay with them receiving money from bad companies. It’s like vandals ordered to pick up highway trash - yo momma - as punishment.

    Receiving Merge Requests from sloppers, though? That’s not cool.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Well… if all the AI companies are making massive losses, might as well take some of their money from them and help them along.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    133·
    2 days ago

    Kinda weird there’s some insistence about open source only getting funding from the purest of sources.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      Yeah I’m 100% sure they are doing this A) for good PR (blender is a beloved app and funding them is awesome) b) to retain communication with the team for easier agent integration later c) to lobby for their AI.

      I can totally understand that it doesn’t look great if blender accepts the money.

      I am sure though that blender could probably need the money; open source software is criminally underfunded and those devs need money to survive at the end of the day.