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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
(www.blender.org)
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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.
Oh so the CEO is being given control over the direction of the project?
Oh so when Anthropic starts to go under they're going to get their money back?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I'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.