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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)
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In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.

Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender

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[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago

but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

I'd guess they want restrictions because they want to stay on top? (and keep everyone else down)

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago

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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