“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?
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”
I simply cannot see any good coming from Foundations receiving funds from objectively bad Corporations. Hope I’m wrong.
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.
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.
Could be worse, and it’s free money.
The cynic (ML?) in me says there’s no free lunch under capitalism.
The cynic (historical materialist) in me says this happens constantly under capitalism.
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.
Who fucking wanted this and do we have a replacement?
Did you read the article? Blender isn’t doing AI stuff.
Taking their money is a problem. They don’t make profit. There’s a reason they’re spending. Can you think of one that’s not evil?
